Re: Privacy Cleanup 101
Modified Step 7 of the decision tree under
Disk/Partition Full! Warning! What to do about it
to include:
Step 7: KDE unable to start
You try to log in to Kubuntu and you get a message
"No write access to home/user/.ICEauthority KDE is unable to start" and/or then another one saying "Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation"
Possible solution (quote dibl):
You have made the mistake of performing some root operation, or running the X server as root, from your user's home folder, resulting in the permissions on that file being changed to root. To restore them, at the command line you need to stop the X server:
sudo service kdm stop
then delete the two files that are likely "contaminated":
sudo rm /home/your_name/.ICEauthority
sudo rm /home/your_name/.Xauthority
then restart the X server:
sudo service kdm start
log in, and you should be OK. But don't run the X server with "sudo", and don't save files in your user's folder when running as root.
Thanks to dibl, here:
KDE is unable to start (dibl)
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3109580.0
Thanks to roger_ramjet for this tip.
Modified Step 7 of the decision tree under
Disk/Partition Full! Warning! What to do about it
to include:
Step 7: KDE unable to start
You try to log in to Kubuntu and you get a message
"No write access to home/user/.ICEauthority KDE is unable to start" and/or then another one saying "Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation"
Possible solution (quote dibl):
You have made the mistake of performing some root operation, or running the X server as root, from your user's home folder, resulting in the permissions on that file being changed to root. To restore them, at the command line you need to stop the X server:
sudo service kdm stop
then delete the two files that are likely "contaminated":
sudo rm /home/your_name/.ICEauthority
sudo rm /home/your_name/.Xauthority
then restart the X server:
sudo service kdm start
log in, and you should be OK. But don't run the X server with "sudo", and don't save files in your user's folder when running as root.
Thanks to dibl, here:
KDE is unable to start (dibl)
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3109580.0
Thanks to roger_ramjet for this tip.
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