Xauthority file not created

Xauthority file did not exist and also find it was just created. Ubuntu Community Ask! Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?

Learn more. How do I create the. Xauthority file? Ask Question. Asked 11 years ago. Active 6 years ago. Viewed 89k times. Thank You! Improve this question. Parimal N. Parimal N Parimal N 2 2 gold badges 6 6 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Add a comment. See if that help you. I was not able to solve this. While X11 is enabled both sides server and local the there is a consistent error coming. Otherwise ssh and remote development is working fine- what does not work is the X server is not recognize.

Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Karel Karel 1 1 silver badge 3 3 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. Google Cloud. Learn more about Collectives on Stack Overflow. The Overflow Blog. Run5k Using strace xauth , it pointed out the incorrect path specified in the variable.

I should also add that I was getting locking errors aswel, amongst others — CybeX. In my case, I only had to do step 1 to 3. Step 4 and 5 actually made it not work. I have to do xauth generate Can I make it fix? Amir, as a gitlab-server is just a webapp, does no seems to make any sense Xorg to cause it to be down, I do suggest to you check how the service is setup. But in gitlab-runners it can be a problem depending on what kind of projects dependencies you are building.

Probably specific to a project repo CI build. You need to check for example if the project is recreating the xauth setup inside a new container that is not so simple to integrate with host Xorg because the libs can be in different versions.

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Clean up your home directory! Ogre Psalm33 Ogre Psalm33 3 3 gold badges 7 7 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Moving the. So, what can be found in the other answers here was not sufficient for me, I needed the settings: AddressFamily inet X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 X11UseLocalhost no The 10 should depend on your host machine's configuration, I had to use X11UseLocalhost no , because otherwise the KVM guest would try to forward to its own displays, not the host machine's displays.

If you are using ssh-agent , then there is AllowAgentForwarding yes as well, which probably should be activated. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses.

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