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Bug#336226: .ICE-unix not correctly created



tags 336226 unreproducible moreinfo
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> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 08:43:54PM +0200, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > I think I found why my XFCE4 fails to start when starting it via
> > startx.  It seems that the .ICE-unix directory in /tmp is created as
> > the current user, but the session-manager needs the directory to have
> > root as owner.  IIRC XFCE4 from kdm works, because kdm ist run as root
> > and creates the .ICE-unix directory. 
> 
> > If startx is actually supposed to create the .ICE-unix directory then
> > please move this bug over to the proper X11 package.

On Sun, Dec  4, 2005 at 16:42:24 +0000, Simon Huggins wrote:
> Well something should and I don't believe it should be xfce4-session as
> we will never be run as root.
> 
> For reference the errors found in .xsession-errors are:
> 
> _IceTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.ICE-unix will not be
> created.
> _IceTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.ICE-unix) failed, errno = 2
> _IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local
> xfce4-session: Unable to establish ICE listeners: Cannot establish any
> listening sockets
> 
/tmp/.ICE-unix is supposed to be created by /etc/init.d/x11-common at
startup.  Is any of you able to reproduce this problem recently?

Thanks,
Julien

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