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watchpocket
February 3rd, 2011, 08:15 AM
Problem: Line 4 of my ~/.xsession-errors file says:


_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to rootOwner and group for that file, I notice, is "gdm".

( and, in case they're relevant, here are the first three lines of ~/.xsession-errors:

/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US.
Start IM through /home/rj/.xinput.d/en_US linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/none. )

Solution: run this command:
sudo chown root:root /tmp/.ICE-unix; rename ".xsession-errors" to ".xsession-errors.old" and reboot.

Except it's not a solution, because line 4 of the newly regenerated .xsession-errors file still says:

"_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root"

*Should* /tmp/.ICE-unix in fact be set to root? If so, why does it get set back to "gdm" on re-boot? And what should I do about it?