KDE hangs after patch/bugfix

[WilliamS]

I did the cp in /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver or whatever (didn't write it but it is on the mdk website for 9.1 , then rebooted using CD1 and the patch.pl floppy made as instructed on the same website.

 

So the result is KDE hangs, I don't know to do anything about it.

The error message is: the following installation problem was detected wile trying to start KDE:

No write access to "/home/me/ICEauthority".

KDE is unable to start.

 

It hangs at the point in the process of "setting up interprocess communication.

 

I"d rather not do a complete re-install aftere three days of sweating on the "learning curve" :(

 

All ideas appreciated.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

You should be able to do this in a terminal as your user:

 

chmod 0600 /home/me/.ICEauthority

 

(Remember there is a dot before ICEauthority.)

[WilliamS]

Did that - cannot see any difference; still hangs. :(

[liquidzoo]

I did that once upon a time, I think it was when I was messing around with other window managers. I think that the way I fixed this particular problem was to delete the .ICEAuthority file and let KDE recreate it. I could be wrong on this, though; and I would wait for confirmation that this might actually fix your problem before you try it and really screw something up.

 

I would hate for something to go wrong and it be my fault.

[tyme]

if you want to try LuquidZoo's idea and be pretty safe, just rename .ICEauthority to something like .ICEauthority.bkp so that you still have the file in case it messes something up. if it creates more problems, renaming the file back to it's original should fix it.

[WilliamS]

Tried rename to /home/me/.ICEauthority.bak , this had no result.

Wonder if its possible to (first reverse the rename) and undo the cp /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver /etc/pam.d/kscreensaver3

 

Is there a way of finding if this file still exists?

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Before you go to drastic measures. What do you get when you go into your /home/me directory and do this:

 

ls -l .ICEauthority

 

I get:

[omar@omar omar]$ cd /home/omar/

[omar@omar omar]$ ls -l .ICEauthority 

-rw-------    1 omar     omar        22194 May 25 14:22 .ICEauthority

 

You might have to go in as root and chown .ICEauthority like this:

[me@localhost me]$ su

Password: [enter root password]

[root@localhost me]# chown me:me .ICEauthority

 

And you can't reverse the cp command if you told it to overwrite. If I'm experimenting or unsure of what I'm doing, I always make a backup first.

 

[root@omar omar]# cp /etc/pam.d/kscreensaver3 /etc/pam.d/kscreensaver3.bak

[root@omar omar]# cp /etc/pam.d/xscreensaver /etc/pam.d/kscreensaver3

[WilliamS]

In /home/william/ directory when I ls -l I get:

 

-rw------- 1 501 william 0 May26 10:05 .ICEauthority

 

(I'm getting that sinking feeling that it might be time for a format and re-install)

[WilliamS]

It Works!

Did a chmod and that was all it required.

 

Thanks Steve, greatly appreciated!

 

My browser (Opera) no longer launches, but maybe a re-install(?).