Kde 4.1 will not start.(Solved)

[NexusHumanis]

When I try to log in to kubuntu on my wife's computer, kde stops loading, and gives me the error message; "The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE: "no write access to /home/*******/.ICEauthority./"

KDE is unable to start. "

I have tried fixing Xserver in recovery mode, reparing broken packages, reinstalling kde and a couple of blind shots. The computer runs KDE4.1. Any commands that can fix this?

[mfabry]

Re: Kde 4.1 will not start.

Check manuals of chown and chmod. Chown changes ownership of files/directories (change ownership of .ICEauthority to youruser/yourgroup). Chmod changes permissions on files/directories (give owner and group write permissions). Easy and painless way - use Midnight Commander file manager (sudo mc).

[NexusHumanis]

Re: Kde 4.1 will not start.

The system cannot find a file called ICEauthority.....?

[barbolani]

Re: Kde 4.1 will not start.

Notice the dot at the beginning of the filename. You must include the dot in the chmod/chown command arguments

[NexusHumanis]

Re: Kde 4.1 will not start. (SOLVED)

What exactly would be the command here? I have tried "chown user /.ICEauthority and similar strings, but nothing seems to yield results. It certainly doesn`t fix the problem.
What could cause something like this in the first place? The install worked fine yesterday, exept I had to manually start knetworkmanager.

EDIT: I ran the command as written above, but this time I inverted the slash......and bingo.
The command then was "chown user \.ICEauthority"

Thanks for helping.

[dibl]

Re: Kde 4.1 will not start. (SOLVED)

What could cause something like this in the first place?

Root operations done from the user's home directory, such as installing software, copy/pasting files, etc.

[NexusHumanis]

Re: Kde 4.1 will not start.

Actually, it seems what may have caused this is trying to start knetworkmanager with sudo in the terminal. Last night the internet connection was suddenly gone, and i ran "sudo knetworkmanager" to get it started again. It didn't work, but today the problem with starting kde was back. I now how to fix it now, but I remember doing the same thing before the problem appeared the first time.