Re: lacking authority

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From: Aaron Crane
Subject: Re: lacking authority
Date: 15:00 on 10 Jan 2007
Yossi Kreinin writes:
> yosefk> bk pull
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth:  timeout in locking authority file 
> 
> 2. Why did it work for years and stopped now?

My guess is that this is related to the crash you recently vented hate
about: something left some locks lying around, and now xauth is confused
by them.  Assuming that's true, `man xauth` suggests that:

  - running `xauth info` might show which authority file is locked
  - running `xauth -b list` might break the stale locks

Though I didn't know until just now that X authority files ever got
locked, so I could be wrong.

I think the hate here would be for software that can't distinguish
between a lock and random crash-turds.

-- 
Aaron Crane

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