Comment 29 for bug 8785

2008/12/8 Jonathan Thomas <email address hidden>

> I would chown your home directory recursively to be safe.
> Then, if you ever need to fix X again, I would recommend that you login in
> to the console as a normal, use sudo to launch the terminal program to fix
> xorg.conf, then run startx normally. (Not as sudo, startx doesn't need to be
> run as root)

Thanks alot. I ran startx beeing root because i needed to be root to change
the contents of xorg.conf. But thanks. At least now i know the way to fix
this :)

>
>
> --
> kdeinit changes ownership of ~/.ICEauthority if run via (a kde program via)
> sudo
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/8785
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> Status in "kdelibs" source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> I changed the screen resolution in one session. This worked well, with one
> small exception: the background picture was still at the old resolution.
> After
> I logged out I could not login again.
> The error message in /xsession-errors was helpful: "Can't open(?)
> .ICEauthority".
>
> In a aconsole I did
>
> skluth@pcatlas13 ~ $ ls .ICEauthority
> -rw------- 1 root root 332 Oct 4 09:27 .ICEauthority
>
> I did "chgrp skluth .ICEauthority; chown .ICEauthority" and the problem was
> fixed.
>
> Cheers, Stefan
>