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    Re: Privacy Cleanup 101

    Modified Step 7 of the decision tree under
    Disk/Partition Full! Warning! What to do about it
    to include:

    Step 7: KDE unable to start

    You try to log in to Kubuntu and you get a message
    "No write access to home/user/.ICEauthority KDE is unable to start" and/or then another one saying "Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation"

    Possible solution (quote dibl):

    You have made the mistake of performing some root operation, or running the X server as root, from your user's home folder, resulting in the permissions on that file being changed to root. To restore them, at the command line you need to stop the X server:
    sudo service kdm stop
    then delete the two files that are likely "contaminated":
    sudo rm /home/your_name/.ICEauthority
    sudo rm /home/your_name/.Xauthority
    then restart the X server:
    sudo service kdm start

    log in, and you should be OK. But don't run the X server with "sudo", and don't save files in your user's folder when running as root.

    Thanks to dibl, here:
    KDE is unable to start (dibl)
    http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3109580.0


    Thanks to roger_ramjet for this tip.
    An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski

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