Recently, I switched from Ubuntu to Arch Linux. I've installed X11 as my Window System and KDE as my Desktop Environment. I've separate partition for /home
, /var
, /
and /boot
and they all mount at boot time. When I run startx
, the following message gets displayed.
xauth:timeout in locking authority file /home/hello/.Xauthority
Accidently, I've deleted that file. So, I copied it from /root
. I've changed it's authority using code below:
# chown hello:users ~/.Xauthority
Even after this, I'm unable to run startx
unless I use root account.
startx
again. Does it work? If not, what is the exact error message? – Adaephon Nov 20 '13 at 13:37