You wrote (in your message from Saturday 6)
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Every time I run "startx", I get the following error:
 > 
 > xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "hostname:0" in "remove" command
 > 
 > In console, before running X, when I type "xauth list", I get nothing. 
 > However, running X, I get the following message:
 > 
 > $ xauth list
 > gandalf/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  c61e9cfb383cd82c80245d3e8374b198
 > $
 > 
 > I saw in man pages that xauth is a utility to control permissions. I do care 
 > this message because I'm thinking this is slowing the speed of X 
 > initialization.
 > 
 > Is it something wrong?

It's probably a dns-related error. X tries to find the IP address for
'hostname' in order to add an authorisation for tcp connections to the
X server. 
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					Matthieu