Authorisation failure -155 on Konsole after messing with desktop icon properties

[Nigel Henry]

Hi folks. I seem to have to have screwed something up in KDE,almost for the 
first time. Perhaps against better advice I've put Boinc for Setiathome on my 
FC2 install. I created a link to application (with Icon) on the desktop to 
start the Boinc client. I also created another link to application for the 
Boinc manager that does other stuff.  As Boinc seemed to be trying to fry my 
cpu, I wanted an option to shut the client down from the desktop. I found a 
command "/home/user/boinc-program/BOINC/boinc_cmd --quit" which ran ok on the 
CLI and shut down the client. 
boinc_cmd is a binary file, whereas the first 2 links were to text files.

Now the fun starts. I created the link to application on the desktop with the 
same command, but was getting stuff like, Kdeinit could not launch. 

No doubt stupidly, I thought I'd mess about in the properties for the desktop 
config file. First I looked at permissions, and made the file executable. No 
doubt not necessary, and I don't think this has caused the problem. Under the 
"General" tab I looked in the Desktop Config File by means of the "tools" 
icon. I believe it is here that I have caused the problem. Under "Filename 
Patterns" and "Add" I added .bin as a file extension. After doing this the 
desktop link to application still would not run the binary. So I went to shut 
down Boinc using the command above that had previously worked. Now when I try 
to run it from the Konsole, it just throws back. "Authorisation Failure 
-155". Same thing if I try it while su'ed to root. Any help would be very 
gratefully received, and I'll try not to mess up KDE again. Nigel.


BTW. Any tips on how to run a binary that's in the /home/user directory would 
be welcome.
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