Version: unknown (using 4.00.85 (KDE 4.0.85 (KDE 4.1 >= 20080703)), Debian packages) Compiler: cc OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.23-rt1-davidb Often enough, after normal KDE shutdown or control/back restart, .ICEauthority has been changed to root:root!!! and the lock files may still be around as well. 1. KDE3 or KDE4 will now not start because it has no write-permission. 2. dcopserver, if needed, will not start, because of permissions or the lock files.
Since it would take a root privileged process to do this--the only culprit can be ksensors which is run sudo to get disk temperature measurements. Realizing this, I put a sleep before the sudo ksensors so that other older applets such as knemo, kalsamix or such would start dcop first. This had been OK, but ... Since I cannot prevent kmix from coming up and I can get everything on its mixer pane as kalsamix, I am not starting that. knemo, apparently does not use dcop (in a way effect this). Kboincspy is for whatever reason not coming up usually and to start it manually after the ksensors, I have to change the permissions on the .ICEauthority. The dcopserver is running as root (and with root privileges does not really care about who owns .ICEauthority). I wish KDE stuff would not change permissions of files. I had this before with kmail when trying to let another login look at my mail. If I set them wrong, this is my problem. If I set them sensibly, changing them is a bug which I cited a long time ago :)
Move this to dcopserver.
I have this happening as well on Kubuntu 08.10. It did appear before and after upgrade to KDE 4.2 beta (was hoping this bug was removed). As well: A very clean close everything and reboot and the login manager comes with a No write access to '/home/user/.ICEauthority'
I am having the same issue unable to access desktop. Tried changing permission to file with no success please notify me with a fix
After upgrading today to 9.04 I have this issue but I have no clue how to fix it. I'm pretty new to Linux/KDE and simply do not know what to do because I can't get into the gui and don't know enough about where permissions are stored. I always change them by the right-click menu-->properties The issue doesn't happen in the live cd. The only resolution I can think of is to nuke my /home disk but uh... I got linux to skip doing crap like that.
I installed Kubuntu 9.04 right after the release in April 09. No problems occurred until yesterday when I was playing around with Kdevelop (launched from the console via sudo Kdevelop). Of course, I also used the commands under the menu "build" (clean project and dist clean). Next time I could not start a kde session because of the above mentioned problem ("could not write to .ICEauthority" "could not start ksmserver. Check your installation"). So I went to the console login and changed permissions of .ICAauthority via sudo chmod a+rw. After next reboot launching of kde was as usual. Strange enough, the file looks empty. Regards Martin
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 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: 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 button ok pressed A window pops up: Could not start ksmserver. Check your Installation. button okay pressed back to login-screen How to solve: Changed with midnight commander (chmod, chown, chusr) -rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 0 Mar 10 00:58 /home/username/.ICEauthority 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.
good information thanks alot On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Dieter Drewanz <dieterd2005@yahoo.com>wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166158 > > > Dieter Drewanz <dieterd2005@yahoo.com> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC| |dieterd2005@yahoo.com > > > > > --- Comment #7 from Dieter Drewanz <dieterd2005 yahoo com> 2010-03-22 > 20:39:48 --- > 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 > > 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: > > 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 > > button ok pressed > A window pops up: > Could not start ksmserver. Check your Installation. > button okay pressed > > back to login-screen > > How to solve: > > Changed with midnight commander (chmod, chown, chusr) > > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root users 0 Mar 10 00:58 /home/username/.ICEauthority > > 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. > > -- > Configure bugmail: https://bugs.kde.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You are on the CC list for the bug. >
What is the status of this bug? Does it still happen with recent distributions and KDE versions? Who exactly is responsible for creating .ICEauthority?
On Wednesday 06 Sivan 5771 15:55:24 Christoph Feck wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166158 > > > Christoph Feck <christoph@maxiom.de> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - CC| |christoph@maxiom.de > > > > > --- Comment #9 from Christoph Feck <christoph maxiom de> 2011-06-08 > 14:55:21 --- What is the status of this bug? Does it still happen with > recent distributions and KDE versions? Who exactly is responsible for > creating .ICEauthority? The .ICEauthority problem came from running a KDE3 utility as root. This was kensors displaying disk temperatures which required root privileges. Probably, the dcop did this. I have stopped using this so no more problem. However, the principle remains. My startkde scripts started out by resetting those permissions, at least for my loging since I am sudoer. This was a hack.
*** Bug 307403 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years and I will be closing this bug.