[plug] Sub-10 Second X-Sessions

[Mr E_T]

On Tuesday 25 April 2006 11:21, Caleb Duggan wrote:
> 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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> 
> 
> 
Ive had it a few times - I added this to my kdm startup script -

test -e /tmp/.ICE-unix || mkdir /tmp/.ICE-unix
chown root:users /tmp/.ICE-unix
chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix
test -e /tmp/.X11-unix || mkdir /tmp/.X11-unix
chown root:users /tmp/.X11-unix
chmod 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix

Just before kdm starts.
It forces the correct ownership/permissions of the two directories.

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