[Wylug-help] xauth problem from laptop

[A J Cole]

>From: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk>
>Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:59:18 +0100

>sometimes, when I connect from my new laptop to some of my servers I get the 
>following error, and the X windows, BASH auto-complete and other stuff stops 
>working.

>Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
>tcsetattr: Interrupted system call
>Last login: Tue Jun 16 13:52:18 2009 from gary.ringways.co.uk
>[root at harpo ~]# gvim
>gvim

It is only a warning: but clearly isn't being treated as such in the
startup.  As you say "sometimes" I assume that you do sometimes have
xauth working?  You need to look at your X11 authentication setup.

Andrew