Can't write to ~/.ICEauthority

[jpenguin]

So today I couldn't log into KDE4, it said it couldn't write to ~/.ICEauthority. So, I just used SSH on my other comp to log into kubuntu and issued

sudo chmod 777 ~/.ICEauthority

Any that worked and now I can log into KDE4, but I would like to know what this file is for and why I couldn't write to it?

[dibl]

Re: Can't write to ~/.ICEauthority

Yep.

Question and answer are both here:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/mis...authority.html

[kubicle]

Re: Can't write to ~/.ICEauthority

So today I couldn't log into KDE4, it said it couldn't write to ~/.ICEauthority. So, I just used SSH on my other comp to log into kubuntu and issued

sudo chmod 777 ~/.ICEauthority

Any that worked and now I can log into KDE4, but I would like to know what this file is for and why I couldn't write to it?

I'd recommend swiching file ownership back to you (from root) with 'chown' rather than changing the permissions with 'chmod'

[NexusHumanis]

Re: Can't write to ~/.ICEauthority

I read the link you were given, and I see that it talks about using sudo on Kde programs while running Gnome. My experience has shown me that the problem can just as easily arise when using Kde. I have come across this issue when using sudo when I should have been using kdesudo in terminal. That is, running programs such as Kate, Dolphin, and other default Kde packages.