Bug 1338 - /tmp/.ICE-unix must exist and be owned by root in order to start X
Summary: /tmp/.ICE-unix must exist and be owned by root in order to start X
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Lib/ICE (show other bugs)
Version: 6.8.0
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2004-09-11 14:36 UTC by Jeramy Rutley
Modified: 2004-09-10 22:35 UTC (History)
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Description Jeramy Rutley 2004-09-11 14:36:41 UTC 
After logging in, and typing startx, X appeared to start (as in I could see the
X cursor and familiar grey window) but then it exited with /tmp/.ICE-unix must
be root.  This could be a GNOME issue as well...

My /tmp is cleared at boot time, so next time I did a mkdir /tmp/.ICE-unix as
root, switched back to user and typed startx again.
I got an error stating that /tmp/.ICE-unix has to be mode 1777.
After setting that, X started up fine.
Comment 1 Jeramy Rutley 2004-09-11 15:35:58 UTC 
This is in the release notes.

http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.0/doc/RELNOTES5.html

"The socket directories created in /tmp are now required to be owned by root and
have their sticky-bit set. If the premissions are not set correctly, the
component using this directory will print an error message and fail to start."

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