On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:23:38 +0200
Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 09:21:56AM +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:03:52PM -0400, Blair Sadewitz wrote:
> > > The only way around this I've found is to mkdir -p 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix
> > > as root, e.g. in rc.local.  One could add some logic to /etc/rc.d/kdm
> > > to check for this.
> > 
> > You probably want mkdir -m (not -p), I have that in /etc/rc.local as well.
> > I wouldn't vote for adding it to kdm's rc.d script though, users can start
> > KDE from xdm (I'm seeing the problem in that case too) or other X login
> > managers.
> 
> Or if Gnome and maybe other DE's have the same problem, we could just add
> it to /etc/rc.d/cleartmp.  That would only solve the problem for NetBSD
> though.
> 
> 	Geert

I've had the same problem in the past with XFce, and use the same workaround.  So yes, it does affect other DEs as well.

- Dave V.