On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:35:04 +0200, Dmitry Ivanov <dimss@solutions.lv> wrote:
> On Thursday 03 March 2005 13:59, you wrote:
> > Now I'm simply no more able to log-in into kde...during kdeinit (I
> > guess) iceauth fails to find someting and a pop up windows tell me
> > that I must restart the dcopserver, because kde fails the
> > interprocess communication.
> 
> I've seen this on Slackware Linux one or two years ago. The problem was
> with permissions of /tmp/.ICE-unix. Solved it with chmod in rc.local.
> Patrick Volkerding later added chmod to rc.S:
> 
> chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix
> chmod 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix
> 
> Look at your ~/.xsession-errors if you have it. (I've never used X on
> netbsd).

To expand on the above, if your /tmp directory is not 1777, this same
thing can happen.

Andy