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Re: xauth


  • Subject: Re: xauth
  • From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:27:20 -0800

That's not exactly the problem... the problem has to do with the fact that the hostname is resolving to localhost as well. I've been debugging this a bit and am close-ish to a solution... not sure why I can't reproduce it on linux... but still, if you're interested, I created a bug report with my current notepad for this issue:

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz/ticket/44


On Jan 10, 2008, at 14:10, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:

+ "John Koren" <email@hidden>:

I found the problem!

In my /etc/hostconfig file I had the following line:
HOSTNAME=my_computer_name

It was a remnant from previous Mac OS Xs (probably Panther).

I don't know why, but removing this line cleared the problem with xauth.

Hmm, curious. I have such a line in hostconfig too. I remember putting it there under Panther because without it, whenever my laptop moved to a different network the hostname would change, and all of a sudden my X server would begin refusing connections. I've kept it that way since, because I find it extremely annoying that the hostname would change whenever I connect to a different network. (I run scripts on login that are shared across a number of hosts, and parts of those scripts check the hostname to figure out what to do.)

On a different note, I see that there is now a line in /etc/hostconfig
saying "# This file is going away".  I sure hope there will be another
way to keep the hostname stable.

- Harald
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