Cannot Start X: No ICE Sockets

[Fabian Nowak]

Am Dienstag, den 04.10.2005, 09:26 -0700 schrieb Rich Shepard:
>    This is something that just came up on a ThinkPad running Xfce-4.2.1: X
> will not start because there are no ICE sockets found.
> 
>    I've not before encountered this issue with xfce. What could be the cause
> and how do I fix it?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Rich
> 

see if you have write adminssion to
~/.ICEauthority, /tmp, /tmp/.xfsm-ICE*, /tmp/.ICE-unix

using kuser with sudo sometimes resets the permissions.