From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20051107 SeaMonkey/1.5a Description of problem: Please add: Requires: xorg-x11-xauth to the spec file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-xinit-0.99.3-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install minimal system 2. yum install xorg-x11-xinit 3. startx Actual Results: [y4kk0@X ~]$ LANG=C startx /usr/bin/startx: line 132: xauth: command not found /usr/bin/startx: line 142: /usr/bin/xauth: No such file or directory /usr/bin/startx: line 144: /usr/bin/xauth: No such file or directory /usr/bin/startx: line 142: /usr/bin/xauth: No such file or directory /usr/bin/startx: line 144: /usr/bin/xauth: No such file or directory This is a pre-release version of the X server from The X.Org Foundation. It is not supported in any way. [snip] Expected Results: No errors. Additional info:
*** Bug 173693 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Thanks for the report. I've verified the problem, and fixed it in the latest package. I used "Requires: xauth" instead, which is a virtual provide, and futureproofs the package should the package containing the xauth binary ever change. * Tue Nov 22 2005 Mike A. Harris <mharris> 0.99.3-6 - Add "Requires: xauth" for startx, to fix bug (#173684)