[gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

[walt]

On 04/26/2010 01:53 PM, Dale wrote:
> walt wrote:

>> Do you have any files like /root/.xauthXXXXXX?
>>
>>
>
> I think I can safely say yes to that question. I do have a couple. ;-)
>
> root@smoker ~ # ls /root/.xauth*
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 14:10 /root/.xauth48naIs
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 17:31 /root/.xauth9yEErh
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct 2 2009 /root/.xauthAfQHY0
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct 6 2009 /root/.xauthEltCUe
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Apr 26 14:06 /root/.xauthFBdWPY
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct 6 2009 /root/.xauthJJISAe
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct 3 2009 /root/.xauthMjZyQi
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Sep 29 2009 /root/.xauthOApO1i
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Sep 25 2009 /root/.xauthSshOXz
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Sep 28 2009 /root/.xauthbFAjxt
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct 4 2009 /root/.xauthdKOWE3
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct 9 2009 /root/.xauthfCNLCo
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct 15 2009 /root/.xauthhhDOTW
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct 15 2009 /root/.xauthjRxXE8
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Dec 13 13:09 /root/.xauthm5cv93
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Sep 23 2009 /root/.xauthnARKQ1
> -rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct 2 2009 /root/.xauthnaLVUB
> root@smoker ~ #
>
>
> Do I need to log out of KDE, delete those then login again? What generates those and is something wrong that makes it create those?

I deleted all of them and generated a new one just by doing su from an xterm.
Does that work for you?