On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 10:36, Michael Havens wrote:
> Well,
> This is fun. Kde won't work. When X starts up everything works fine but when it starts to load KDE it tells me:
> 
>      The following instalation problem was 
>      detected while trying to start KDE:
>           No write access to 
>           /home/knoppix/.ICEauthority
> 
> So I sat there scratching my head. What in the world do you do in this case? Well this a dandy thing to have happened. So I tried some other program managers. Everything else runs but 'K' apps. When I try to run 'K' apps I get the following error:
> 
>      kdeinit: aborting. No write access to 
>      /home/knoppix/.ICEauthority 
>      Error: KUniqueApplication: Can't setup
>      DCOP communication.
> 
> You know, I look at this and know how to change write access. But what about this 'DCOP' thing>
> :-)Mike(-:
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try 
mv /home/knoppix/.ICEauthority /home/knoppix/.ICEauthority.bak

Is user knoppix logged in already? This would seem to be the case or you
crashed and the file didn't get cleaned up on exit.

Craig