[plug] Sub-10 Second X-Sessions

[Ashley Jennings]

On Debian Sarge 3.1 I found out that one way the .ICEauthority
acquires root permissions was with this command:

$ sudo kwifimanager

Coincidentally, I closed a related bug this morning as it is now
reported as fixed in Debian Unstable.

details here:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=341360



Ashley

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On 25/04/06, 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