DESCRIPTION: After installation of RH60, when rebooting the system for the first time, this message appear in the log file /var/log/messages "could not create dir /etc/X11/fs/.xauth" This is a new install and the /etc/X11/fs exist with the file config. It doesn't cause problems with my XFree86 but I can see the message (could not create dir /etc/X11/fs/.xauth) in the log file. I think that the system cant create the file in the directory because it doesn't have permission to do, the /etc/X11/fs is 755 by default when your install Linux for the first time. If I change the permission of this folder for 775 it's work but am not sure if it can by a problem with the security of the system? Strange. xfs is run by the xfs user, which of course does not have root priviledges, but /etc/X11/fs is owned by root.root. Why enabling write permission for the root group makes the error go away makes no sense because xfs's group is xfs. RedHat Linux 6.0 Gnome xfs, atd, gpm, inet, named, nfs, routed, smb, sshd, crond, halt, keytable, netfs, portmaps, sendmail, snmpd, syslog, function, httpd, killall, network, squid, single, random. SCSI Drive pc x86 400MHz single Processor Monterboard Asus P2-BLS Tanks, Gerhard Mourani
This will be fixed in an upcoming errata release of X.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2423 ***