Fixing Error in locking authority file .Xauthority

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I think I resolved my problem. I used this forum post. The commands were:

cd /home/machine
mv .Xauthority .Xauthority.old
touch .Xauthority
chown machine:machine .Xauthority

https://askubuntu.com/questions/165921/error-on-boot-12-04/166115#166115