[plug] Sub-10 Second X-Sessions

[Jason Posavec]

I thought I might throw this one out to anyone who may have experienced 
it before, or may be able to shed some light on it.

I tried to log in one day and the message came up just as the x-server 
was about to start, telling me that my X-session had lasted less than 10 
seconds. Clicking to acknowledge would throw me back to the prompt. This 
would happen on both KDE and Gnome options. I logged in under failsafe 
terminal and had a bit of a look around, and found that the 
.ICEauthority file now belonged to root:root. After I changed ownership 
back to me, everything worked fine.

Any ideas what may cause that to sporadically happen? It would happen 
all too regularly on Suse10, and thankfully only once so far on Ubuntu.

Jason