Re: Authentication problems

[Glenn <glenpm usa net>]

Hi,

Same problem/errors here exactly. It started with the RPMs of 4/14. I can
not logout any longer, resorting to Cntrl-Alt-Backspace. I am also unable to
make any changes in gmenu as root.

Glenn
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Matthias Warkus wrote:

> Hm. Looks like I've got some fundamental problems with X
> authentication (I never bothered much about it) on my machine. Wonder
> why they only came up after the upgrade to glib/GTK+ 1.2.2?
>
> gnome-smproxy: unable to connect to session manager
> Imlib Init
> initializing...
> While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication
> rejected.
>
> <OUTPUT>
>
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication
> rejected.
>
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication
> rejected.
>
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication
> rejected.
>
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication
> rejected.
>
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication
> rejected.
>
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication
> rejected.
> Gdk-Message: Got event for unknown window: 0
>
> SetKbdSettings - type: 2 rate: 5 delay: 500 snumlk: 0
> SetKbdSettings - Succeeded
> xscreensaver-command: no screensaver is running on display :0.0
> xscreensaver disabling server builtin screensaver.
> xscreensaver: you can re-enable it with "xset s on".
>
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication
> rejected.
>
> GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 authentication
> rejected.
>
> </OUTPUT>
>
> Well, and then it discarded my session.
>
> mawa
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