(SOLVED) KDE serious trouble

[sandro54]

Hi Guys
I tried to backup /home on my USB external HDD and after this operations I tried to login on my user "xgrass" and I had the the error during the KDE start. the error is :

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

I tried "chmod 777 /home/xgrass" but the error is there. I tried to erase .KDE and logout/login again but KDE doesn't START.

So I tried login whit another user "xval" and all works: KDE starts normally . Therefore I tried to replace .KDE of xgrass with .KDE of xval and now I had the following error :

"call to lnusertemp failed, check your installation" and KDE doesn't start.

This i very strange I don't have modified nothing under the user "xgrass".

Please could you help me

thanks

[vinnywright]

Re: KDE serious trouble

remove or rename the .Xauthority and .ICEauthority and .kde
in the fubard acct.

and try agin.................just how did you perform the backup?


VINNY

[skunk]

Re: KDE serious trouble

The usual cause of this is using sudo to run a kde program as root

This is baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

You MUST always use kdesudo to start kde programs as root.

[skunk]

Re: KDE serious trouble

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

I tried "chmod 777 /home/xgrass" but the error is there. I tried to erase .KDE and logout/login again but KDE doesn't START.

The problem occurs because the ownership of ~/.ICEauthority and/or ~/.Xauthority is wrong. You need to reset them back to your user

sudo chown xgrass:xgrass /home/xgrass/.ICEauthority
sudo chown xgrass:xgrass /home/xgrass/.Xauthority

[Snowhog]

Re: KDE serious trouble

Therefore I tried to replace .KDE of xgrass with .KDE of xval and now I had the following error :

"call to lnusertemp failed, check your installation" and KDE doesn't start.

I think this last action may have done serious harm. Unless he has an unmodified backup of the .kde directory for xgrass, well... :P

[dibl]

Re: KDE serious trouble

At the user's ~$ prompt:

mv .kde kde_goner

sudo shutdown -r now

Hopefully a new default KDE X session will start successfully when you log back in. All existing customizations will be lost, except to the extent that you can recover or rebuild them using the kde_goner contents.

[sandro54]

Re: KDE serious trouble



I solved with remove the Xauthority, ICEauthority and .KDE files and after reboot all works.

thanks everybody

[vinnywright]

Re: KDE serious trouble

I solved with remove the Xauthority, ICEauthority and .KDE files and after reboot all works.

thanks everybody

great glad you got it.............but for refrence ....had you run a GUI app with sudo insted of kdesudo?

VINNY

[ssri]

Re: (SOLVED) KDE serious trouble

Hmm, for the problem of "No write access to "/home/xgrass/.ICEauthority""an easier way is to use chown, i.e.

sudo chown username:groupname ~/filename

that way you can keep your .kde settings. I had the same problem as you when I apt-get updated from the console before logging into kde because I simply wanted to update, turn off my computer and go to sleep.