KDE wont start

sdrambo · 05-21-2008, 05:48 AM

I get the following error when the KDE attempts to start,
Following problem was encountered starting KDE, No write access to /home/user/.ICEauthority
The error appeared out of the blue

General Failure · 05-21-2008, 07:05 AM

Post the output of

Code:

ls -l /home/user/.ICEAuthority

sdrambo · 05-21-2008, 07:13 AM

Output of ls -l

-rw-------root root 0 2008-05-21 20:26 /home/user/.ICEauthority

Thanks

General Failure · 05-21-2008, 07:36 AM

So assuming your username is user, the command you have to run is

Code:

sudo chown -R user:users /home/user/.ICEauthority

This will correct the ownership so that the directory and its contents belong to you again.

jay73 · 05-21-2008, 08:22 AM

Quote:

The error appeared out of the blue

That could be a side-effect of launching a GUI application using the sudo command. That has been known to change the permissions on the .ICEAuthority file in some cases. The best way of avoiding it is using gksu instead of sudo; I seem to remember KDE has something similar (kdesu?).

sdrambo · 05-21-2008, 04:22 PM

Thanks General Failure your command did not work but you put me on the right track,
sudo chown -hR home/[user]/.ICEauthority
did the trick.
I think jay73 is on the right track too, I had used sudo to install the latest nvidia driver. That could have been responsible.
Thanks to you both.