Cannot Start X: No ICE Sockets

[Alexander Toresson]

On 10/4/05, Fabian Nowak <timystery at arcor.de> wrote:
> 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.
>

Yep, and check your .xsession-errors. I've hade a similar problem
which I solved by deleting ~/.ICEauthority.

Regards, Alexander Toresson