Ubuntu
xinit package

timeout in locking authority file if $HOME/$HOSTNAME exists and $HOSTNAME has dots

Bug #1942962 reported by Eduardo Santos
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Bug Description

On Ubuntu, if you create a directory with the same name as the system's hostname in the user's home directory ($HOME/$HOSTNAME) and the hostname contains a dot (e.g., localhost.localdomain), when this user attempts to startx, xauth will complain about the lock in the authority file ~/.Xauthority. This also creates the files ~/.Xauthority-c and ~/.Xauthority-l. This is a *very* specific bug, I'm not sure if it's Ubuntu-related or xinit-related exactly. I can reproduce it consistently (minimal install, no additional pacakges installed aprt from xorg).

System info:
- Ubuntu Server 20.04.3 LTS
- xinit 1.4.1-0ubuntu2

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Eduardo Santos (ecsantos)
description: updated
summary: - timeout in locking authority file if $HOME/$HOSTNAME exists
+ timeout in locking authority file if $HOME/$HOSTNAME exists and
+ $HOSTNAME has dots
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