couldn't start KDE.

[nbco]

On Thursday 03 February 2005 09:04, BSD Mail wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:48:13 -0800, Kent Stewart <kstewart at owt.com> 
wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 February 2005 11:28 pm, BSD Mail wrote:
<snip>
> > Did you see the error message about /tmp/.ICE-unix. Check the
> > ownership.
> >
> > Kent
>
> Sorry I forgot to mention that this is the second thing I tried
> actually. I noticed the permissions for 3 other directory and the
> .ICE-unix under /'tmp as root:wheel I ran chown -R user:user on them
> it got rid of most the errors but still, I was getting an error about
> that .ICE-unix directory. the third thing I did is I rm -rf
> everything under /tmp and started kde again. Less errors and still
> showing the .ICE-unix error and my previous attachment was the least
> error I was able to get.
<snip>

Hi, 
In relaton to the .ICE_unix directory, UPDATING deals with it in part 
(see below).   I like having clear_tmp_enable="YES" so to avoid this 
problem, I created the directory /etc/rc.local with the following line:

mkdir -p -m 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix

This means that I can still clear out my tmp directories automatically 
on reboot and maintain the ICE-unix permissions.  
I hope this helps
.nbco


20041229:
AFFECTS: users of x11/kdebase3, x11-servers/xorg-server
AUTHOR: lofi at freebsd.org
If KDE does not start anymore after upgrading Xorg to version 6.8.1
(X restarts when the KDE splash screen has reached the third icon),
please check whether the directory /tmp/.ICE-unix exists, is owned by 
root and has permissions 1777 (read/write/access for everybody + sticky 
bit).

To make sure everything is in working order, do (as root):
mkdir -p /tmp/.ICE-unix && chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix &&
chown root:wheel /tmp/.ICE-unix

Also, make sure you do NOT have clear_tmp_enable="YES" set 
in /etc/rc.conf,
as it will remove the directory on every reboot and applications will 
re-create it with the wrong ownership.

Users of daily_clean_tmps_enable in /etc/periodic.conf should make sure
daily_clean_tmps_ignore contains /tmp/.ICE-unix.