Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Strange X11 errors

Last night my battery discharged and my machine turned off immediately. After a restart I was unable to log in as a normal user, but it worked as root. There wasn't any useful information in /var/log/Xorg.0.log, but in ~/.xsession-errors I found error messages like these:

Xsession: X session started for feri at Wed Jul 2 07:29:34 CEST 2008
Protocol not supported by server
xrdb: Can't open display ':0'
wmsetbg warning: could not open domain file /home/feri/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker
Protocol not supported by server
wmsetbg fatal error: could not open display
Protocol not supported by server
xset: unable to open display ":0"
Protocol not supported by server
xmodmap: unable to open display ':0'
Protocol not supported by server
unclutter: could not open display
Protocol not supported by server
Error: Can't open display: :0
Protocol not supported by server
wmmon: can't open display :0
Protocol not supported by server
wmgtemp: can't open display :0
wmgtemp: Primary Sensor - k8temp on PCI adapter
wmnd [linux_proc]: detected eth0
wmnd [linux_proc]: detected wmaster0
wmnd [linux_proc]: detected wlan0
wmnd [testing_dummy]: detected off

The solution was really simple, but it needed some forum browsing. With removing ~/.Xauthority I could log in again.

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