On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 03:31:04PM -0500, Jacob I. Stowell wrote: > Hi All, > > I am having trouble with gnome-session and was hoping someone might be > able to help me out. The problem is that I cannot get gnome-session to > start. When I have gnome-session in my .xinitrc, X crashes. X will run > when gnome-session is removed from .xinitrc, but when I try to start > gnome-session from a console, I receive the following error: > > shaq-fu[~]% gnome-session > _IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root > > ** WARNING **: Unable to lock ICE authority file: > /home/jake/.ICEauthority > > I attached a file containing the output of an strace I ran on > gnome-session. I appreciate any help in correcting this problem. >
The strace output looks like it is trying to make the same complaint. Have you tried wiping out these two dirs? (rm -fr /tmp/.ICE-unix /home/jake/.ICEauthority) Hmmm.... $ ls -la /tmp | grep .ICE-unix drwxrwxrwt 2 greg users 4096 Nov 18 13:27 .ICE-unix
