on Sun, Nov 17, 2002, Matt Price (matt.price@utoronto.ca) wrote:
> hi,
>
> trying to run vncserver... I getthe following error on startup:
>
> vncserver
> xauth: /home/matt/.Xauthority not writable, changes will be ignored
> xauth: error in locking authority file /home/matt/.Xauthority
What's ownership of /home/matt and /home/matt/.Xauthority?
> New 'X' desktop is anarres:3
>
> Starting applications specified in /etc/X11/Xsession
> Log file is /home/matt/.vnc/anarres:3.log
>
> vncserver starts and seems to work fine (I can view the session
> remotely), but kde won't start; it gives a screen with the following:
>
> no access to '/home/matt/.ICEAuthority'
What's ownership of this file?
I suspect your home directory may not be writeable by you.
$ ls -ld /home/matt
...will show perms.
Peace.
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