[plug] Sub-10 Second X-Sessions

[Caleb Duggan]

Yeah i get that all the time too. Usually after ive been doing a lot of  
stuff as root but, without actually touching the file

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 08:34:09 +0800, Jason Posavec  
<jasonposavec at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> 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
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