<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>SOLVED....This thread may be closed.<br>Here is how :<br>Created a symlink to the libs in /usr/X11R6/lib from /usr/lib<br>As root type the following<br># cd /usr/lib<br># ln -sv /usr/X11R6/lib/* .<br></div><div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br>I figured I needed to do this because when I tried to start xterm using a non-root login , xterm was not able to locate libXft.so.2 (pardon me if I have the name of the library wrong , in a hurry to go back to sleep....peacefully <img src="http://mail.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/01.gif"> )<br><br>And this I figured by using strace on the xterm command.<br><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message
----<br>From: Neeraj Vaidya <neeraj.vaidya@yahoo.co.in><br>To: kde-linux@kde.org<br>Sent: Monday, 11 August, 2008 10:50:24 PM<br>Subject: [kde-linux] Problem logging in as non-root user<br><br><div style="font-family: Courier New,courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hi,<br>I desperately need help on this. I googled a lot for this error , but all posts only ended without any solution.<br><br>
I installed KDE 3.5.6 and I am able to successfully launch the KDE session when I issue startx from a root session. </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
I have setup my inittab to start kdm on boot. <br><br>When I try to login as a
normal (non-root) user , I get stuck at the message saying "Loading Desktop...."
<br><br>There is just a mouse pointer which I can move around. Nothing else
happens. I then kill X by ctrl-alt-backspace. This brings me to the
console where I can see the following errors in the ~/.xsession-errors
file. Can somebody please help me with this ?<br><br>(I am guessing that this
could be a permissions issue. Since the root is able to get to the
desktop as cleanly as a whistle). Also , it seems strange that iceauth
is not able to find the shared library whereas it clearly eists in a
very "popular" location /usr/X11R6/lib. Also , the LD_LIBRARY_PATH has
been updated with this path. </span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
I know a lot of you are going to tell me to upgrade to KDE 4 , but I
want to first know why I am not able to login as non-root in this case.
</span><br>
<br>
Here is the ~/.xsession-errors file: <br>
<span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">startkde: Starting up...</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">/usr/X11R6/bin//iceauth: error
while loading shared libraries: libICE.so.6: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">ICE Connection rejected!</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach
failed Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication
protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">ICE Connection rejected!</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach
failed Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication
protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">DCOPServer self-test failed.</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">iceauth: error while loading shared libraries: libICE.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">kdeinit: DCOPServer could not be started, aborting.</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">kbuildsycoca running...</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">kded: Fatal IO error: client killed</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">klauncher: Exiting on signal 15</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">kwin: Fatal IO error: client killed</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">ksmserver: Fatal IO error: client killed</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">startkde: Shutting down...</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory</span> <br>
<br>
<span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Error: Can't contact kdeinit!</span> </span><br><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div></div><br>
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