Re: [SLUG] X crash/freeze

[Tom Massey <tmas5640@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David wrote:
> 
> A netscape window locked up, and when I tried to kill netscape off, the
> whole of my windowmaker/Xsession locked up. I killed windowmaker, but when
> I tried to reconnect to X again (startx) I get the messages below. I'm
> tempted to do a windows style re-boot.. but... does anyone have a better
> suggestion?

You might be able to fix this by deleting .Xauthority in your home
directory, and then it gets recreated when you startx. But there's
probably a better way to do this, just something that's worked for me in
a similar situation.