Isaac Clerencia wrote: > On Saturday, 14 January 2006 14:10, Jan Schledermann wrote: >> Any ideas? > What permissions do you have on /tmp? > > It should be: > % ls -ld /tmp > drwxrwxrwt 14 root root 3072 2006-01-14 13:16 /tmp
That's OK! > > Do you have a > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 2006-01-14 10:20 .ICE-unix > file after trying to start as normal user? Yes - with the normal user as owner > Do you have that file after trying to start as root? > Yes - with root as owner And here it is getting interesting. Running startkde from an xterm, as a non-root user, actually gives me the error message: "Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root" So your questions where right on the money. The $10000 question is then: "How to make sure that .ICE-unix actually IS set to root AUTOMATICALLY by kde??? I spent some time snooping around on the kde 3.5 system which was upgraded from kde 3.4 to see if I could spot any differences. And I could. The 2 systems that I recently installed where installed from scratch with the xorg server, whereas the working system was changed on the fly from xfree86 to xorg. Though x11-common is installed on the non-working systems, there is no /etc/init.d/x11-common file present. On the working systems both /etc/init.d/x11-common and /etc/init.d/x86free-common are present. The x11-common is actually called upon starting up. In this script the .ICE-unix directory is set up. I extracted the relevant code from the x11-common script and inserted it in the script below, and run it from /etc/rc5 (which is my x-runlevel: #!/bin/sh #/etc/init.d/ice-unix_init script # jan 15, 2006 ICE_DIR=/tmp/.ICE-unix if [ -e $ICE_DIR ] && [ ! -d $ICE_DIR ]; then mv $ICE_DIR $ICE_DIR.$$ fi mkdir -p $ICE_DIR chown 0:0 $ICE_DIR chmod 1777 $ICE_DIR # end of script And everything is working now. If I ever happen to get bored enough I my try to find out why this happend ;-) Anyway thanks for your help, and my apologies for wasting your time by not picking up on the error message by myself. Best regards Jan -- ** Do not use the reply-to address. It'll end up in the trash can ** Mail me at: janATschledermann.or"REMOVE_THIS"g -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]