After some problems updating my applications yesterday SDDM is now creating the following looping error message from xauth

/usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad "remove" command line
/usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):2: bad "add" command line
/usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):1: bad "remove" command line
/usr/local/bin/xauth: (stdin):2: bad "add" command line

Any advice on either fixing the SDDM operation or identifying how SDDM is accessing xauth, would be appreciated.