Wonder if this might help someone. I just installed v4L and Mplayer to try and see if I can stream my usb webcam, and I started having this .Xauthority problem: booting takes now at least 2 minutes longer than before, like 2 minutes and 20 sec, that is.
I got rid of Mplayer and v4L, but the problem remains. Strange. Especially because the Xauthority message was there before, but with no boot delay.
Oh, and I just noticed that appbrowser is kaput. Can I do anything about it, or just need to reinstall 2.10?