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Bug 86 - KDE crash on start : no write access to ~/.ICEauthority
Summary: KDE crash on start : no write access to ~/.ICEauthority
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: TDE
Classification: Unclassified
Component: system (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5.10
Hardware: i386 Kubuntu Jaunty
: P1 critical
Assignee: Timothy Pearson
URL:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-05-06 11:43 CDT by a.moosavi
Modified: 2013-04-08 15:16 CDT (History)
4 users (show)

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Description a.moosavi 2009-05-06 11:43:29 CDT 
I have installed the jaunty Live CD. Everything was fine until I installed updates and some new applications.
now kde fails to start and shows some dialog box saying :

"
The following installation problem was detected while trying to start kde:
    no write access to '/home/moosa/.ICEauthority'
KDE is unable to start
"

I can go to tty and type:
"
sudo killall kdm
sudo startx
"
then kde starts with everything up and running. (but as root)
So the problem has to be something about wrong permissions.
Comment 1 Lucas Allan 2010-10-22 19:58:51 CDT 
try change .ICEauthority owner:

sudo chown moosa /home/moosa/.ICEauthority
Comment 2 Martin Hodges 2011-02-09 04:37:17 CST 
This happens typically when any kde3 program is run via sudo in a terminal.
Guarddog is a problem for me since it must be run as sudo. I have not tried via kdesudo.
Comment 3 Timothy Pearson 2013-04-08 15:16:40 CDT 
This appears to be an old bug related to incorrect usage of TDE applications.  TDE applications cannot be started with sudo without changing permissions of files such as ~/.ICEauthority, however they can be launched with tdesudo without issues.

Closing as invalid.