Your session only lasted 10 seconds

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> I keep getting these wretched "your session only lasted 10 seconds"
> errors. I usually drop out of xorg to a terminal and remove
> ~/.ICEauthority, return to X and login successfully. 
> My question is, why does this keep happening?

This happened to me once, with Warty. Apparnetly It was because I
installed a KDE program (K3B) which required root permissions for god
knows what. too technical for me, but basically it's K3B that would
generate the error you describe, each and everytime I would start it.

HTH

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Vince