On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:03:52PM -0400, Blair Sadewitz wrote:
> The only way around this I've found is to mkdir -p 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix
> as root, e.g. in rc.local.  One could add some logic to /etc/rc.d/kdm
> to check for this.

You probably want mkdir -m (not -p), I have that in /etc/rc.local as well.
I wouldn't vote for adding it to kdm's rc.d script though, users can start
KDE from xdm (I'm seeing the problem in that case too) or other X login
managers.

> Unless my setup is hosed (I don't see why it would be, I simply did
> 'make install'), this issue should at least be mentioned somewhere in
> KDE's MESSAGE files.

I think this would be a better place to document the workaround.

	Geert