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Hi all....

I installed KDE 3.5.6 and I am able to successfully launch the KDE session when I issue startx from a root session.

I have setup my inittab to start kdm on boot. When I try to login as a normal user , I get stuck at the message saying "Loading Desktop...." There is just a mouse pointer which I can move around. Nothing else happens. I then kill X by ctrl-alt-backspace. This brings me to the console where I can see the following errors in the ~/.xsession-errors file. Can somebody please help me with this ? (I am guessing that this could be a permissions issue. Since the root is able to get to the desktop as cleanly as a whistle). Also , it seems strange that iceauth is not able to find the shared library whereas it clearly eists in a very "popular" location /usr/X11R6/lib. Also , the LD_LIBRARY_PATH has been updated with this path.

I know a lot of you are going to tell me to upgrade to KDE 4 , but I want to first know why I am not able to login as non-root in this case.

Here is the ~/.xsession-errors file:

startkde: Starting up...

/usr/X11R6/bin//iceauth: error while loading shared libraries: libICE.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

ICE Connection rejected!

DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed

ICE Connection rejected!

DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed

DCOPServer self-test failed.

iceauth: error while loading shared libraries: libICE.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

kdeinit: DCOPServer could not be started, aborting.

Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused

kbuildsycoca running...

kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed

kded: Fatal IO error: client killed

klauncher: Exiting on signal 15

kwin: Fatal IO error: client killed

ksmserver: Fatal IO error: client killed

startkde: Shutting down...

Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory

Error: Can't contact kdeinit!

Quoted from "mrhed"

my guess you are missing libICE.so.6 reinstall package x11-links if you still get the error then symbolically link ln -s /usr/lib/libICE.so.6.3.0 /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 if its allready there then chmod 755 it in the terminal i could be wrong

thanks for you reply. I will give it a try. However , I am sure I have libICE.so.6 in the folder /usr/X11R6/lib. I just checked it before sending this post.

And the strange thing is that root can start a KDE desktop by issuing startx from the terminal. In case of root , it does not complain that libICE.so.6 is missing. Will keep you posted.

I hope the KDE experts here can help me out.

Here is how I solved the problem. Thanks to mrhed :

Created a symlink to the libs in /usr/X11R6/lib from /usr/lib
As root type the following

# cd /usr/lib
# ln -sv /usr/X11R6/lib/* .

I figured I needed to do this because when I tried to start xterm using a non-root login , xterm was not able to locate libXft.so.2 (pardon me if I have the name of the library wrong , in a hurry to go back to sleep....peacefully