tags 336226 unreproducible moreinfo thanks > 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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