Ubuntu
kdelibs package

  1. Bug #8785
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 8785

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: kdeinit messes up ~/.ICEauthority if a kde program is run via sudo in a non-kde environment

(In reply to comment #9)
> this error can be a show stopper for a new user I managed to activate it two ways
> with a ctrl+alt+f1 and reboot
> with a ctrl+alt+backspace, followed by a reboot
> The ownership of the file is root:root
>

That seems unlikely to me. Did you check the ownership of the file before your
test, and do nothing else during the same session?