Log In Freezes/ Xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/sifu/.xauthority

Ztcoracat · July 4, 2017, 11:41pm

Ztcoracat:

I have a fresh install of Open Suse (Gecko) Linux KDE42.2 and it was running well but I couldn’t access the other drives on the desktop.

Elementary OS and Voyager Linux (other distro’s that are installed on this desktop) had an id of 1000 but the fresh install of Gecko was 2001 so I fixed the uid issue with this to make all of the id’s match.
These are the commands I used to fix the uid problem. Also I’ve posted output that dropping to a tty shell is currently giving me.

usermod -u 1000 sifu
groupmod -g 1000 group
find / -user 2001 -exec chown 1000 {} ;
find / -group 2001 -exec chgrp 1000 {} ;

When I try to log in the screen locks up.

Dropping to tty gives me this:
xauth:timeout in locking authority file /home/sifu/.xauthority

cannot open log file /home/sifu/.local/share/xorg/.o.log please consult the x.org Foundation support http://wiki.x.org

xinit failed ./usr/bin/Xorg is not set uid, maybe that's the reason?
If so either use a display manager or adjust /etc/permissions.local and run chkstat --system --set afterwards

xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/sifu/.Xauthority
How can I fix this?

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