[ubuntu-uk] kstars issues

baza baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk
Tue Aug 30 08:41:37 CDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:06 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Baza,
> 
> > OK, here's the story so far. Installed kstars, it only works if I run
> > it as root. If I do that next boot the ownership of .ICEauthority has
> > to be changed from the failsafe terminal via chown back to me from
> > root. 
> 
> So root can do something you can't.
> 
> > This is what terminal shows when I run kstars...
> > 
> > baza at loki:~$ kstars
> > kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : Permission denied
> > Could not bind to socket '/home/baza/.kde/socket-loki/kdeinit__0'
> 


OK, I spotted the problem. Root owned everything in .kde not sure why it
all installed that way, but hey. Thanks for pointing me in the right
direction.

Baza




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