KDE won't work

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Author: Derek Neighbors
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Subject: KDE won't work
Michael Havens said:
>
> 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(-:


Delete the .ICEauthority file and restart X (kde)

-Derek