[oe] Devshell X display error

[Sledz, Steffen]

> I am getting the following error when I attempt to start a 
> gnome-terminal devshell as follows:
> ...
> NOTE: package linux-2.6.20-r8: task do_devshell: started
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> ERROR: function do_devshell failed

I had the same problem when using X11 over ssh redirection. The following part in my .profile helped me.

 if [ -e "$HOME/.Xauthority" ] ; then
     export XAUTHORITY="$HOME/.Xauthority"
 fi

Steffen