cant login to KDE

[VHockey86]

I just updated from mandrake 9.1 to 9.2
I rarely ever use linux, but I figured I would update it and perhaps play around with it some more.

The installation seemed to go ok until I tried to boot.

It wont let me login to my username with KDE
It gives me an error message that says

"no write access to '/home/andrew/.ICEauthority'
KDE is unable to boot"

Keeping in mind i know very little about linux could anyone explain to me how to fix this?

[nukes]

Looks as though the permissions have changed.
How did you upgrade? did you just keep the /home partition, or did you start from scratch, or even use the *shudder* upgrade feature of the installer.
Sounds like the two versions of /etc/users are slightly different, and a simple chown could fix it, but I need more information before I offer that as a possible solution.

[originel]

agreed...sounds like just some wierd permissions thing...chown or chmod should do the trick. do an ls -l in that directory and see what the permissions for that file are.

[VHockey86]

hmm, well to be perfectly honest I have no idea what chown or chmod is, but I got around the problem another way.

I just created a new user in KDE logged in as Root, and then it seemed to work ok with that other user.

And yes I used the "upgrade" feature of the installer =(