Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

Posted on June 14, 2011

Recently I couldn’t start the x server and I got a mysterious Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key error. I deleted the .Xauthority files in my home directory which fixed my problem.


rm ~/.Xauthority*

4 Comments

Alex

Posted August 11, 2012 at 8:50 PM

Thank you! That’s great note
slopjong

Posted August 13, 2012 at 12:41 AM

I just share my experiences no matter if they’re useful for others or not. In this case it’s been useful
nd

Posted September 29, 2012 at 7:42 PM

woot!
Luis

Posted November 23, 2012 at 8:42 PM

Ty so much!

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