After some time I can not start X via the command startx It gets some error about .serverauth file The only way to fix this - rm -rf .serverauth.* This will delete a number of files: ls -lstrAF .serverauth.* 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 102 Nov 3 17:52 .serverauth.5622 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 3 20:42 .serverauth.2337 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 4 03:02 .serverauth.2364 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 102 Nov 5 20:32 .serverauth.4359 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 6 03:02 .serverauth.3197 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 7 12:21 .serverauth.6941 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 9 18:27 .serverauth.2721 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 11 00:57 .serverauth.2736 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 12 03:33 .serverauth.2692 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 13 15:10 .serverauth.2705 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 14 09:58 .serverauth.2781 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 14 13:10 .serverauth.2718 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 15 03:03 .serverauth.2714 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 19 12:37 .serverauth.2703 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 21 12:40 .serverauth.2788 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 22 13:16 .serverauth.2737 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 23 09:56 .serverauth.2698 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 25 13:51 .serverauth.2699 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 26 06:23 .serverauth.2749 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 26 13:13 .serverauth.3425 8 -rw------- 1 mal mal 153 Nov 27 13:30 .serverauth.2700 This is extremely annoying bug gnome just randomly stops starting via X.
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. Could you please also try to run without any /etc/X11/xorg.conf whatsoever and let X11 autodetect your display and video card? Attach to this bug /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this attempt as well, please. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance.
Reporter, I am sorry, that we have left this bug unnoticed for so long, but could you confirm please, that this bug still could be reproduced with the latest updates of Fedora?
It did not happen again at least since April 3007
Cool -- have you got your time machine ready again? :-) No, thanks for letting us know, unfortunately, I have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.
Sorry, bad tab -- close it as NOTABUG (much better news :-)).