[Bug 166158] .ICEauthority problems can prevent KDE start, etc.

[lamont]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166158





--- Comment #8 from lamont <lamarjohnsonwichita gmail com>  2010-03-23 05:01:22 ---
good information thanks alot

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Dieter Drewanz <dieterd2005 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166158
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> Dieter Drewanz <dieterd2005 at yahoo.com> changed:
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> --- Comment #7 from Dieter Drewanz <dieterd2005 yahoo com>  2010-03-22
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> using sidux:  Nov 2009  Linux 2.6.31-6.slh.2-sidux-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun
> Nov
> 15 13:56:52 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
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> last apt-get update March 2010
> last apt-get upgrade End of February 2010
> For two weeks was netbook not rebootet because of using pm_suspend.
>
> Stopping at third dot displayed of five while starting kde. Kde does not
> start.
> After 5 to 10 minutes a window pops up with following text:
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> The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE:
> No write access to '/home/username/.ICEauthority'.
> KDE is unable to start.
> (button for pressing ok)
>
> checked in a terminal with
> ls -la
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 10 00:58 .ICEauthority
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> button ok pressed
> A window pops up:
> Could not start ksmserver. Check your Installation.
> button okay pressed
>
> back to login-screen
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> How to solve:
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> Changed with midnight commander (chmod, chown, chusr)
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> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 0 Mar 10 00:58 /home/username/.ICEauthority
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> Now it works again. Strange - file did not change date.
>
> Another thing - when i stopped kde with "init 1" and in a root terminal i
> type
> "start x" kde hungs up with a screen for config of kde3 to kde4.
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