sudo to startx??!

[deadly7]

Ok, so two nights ago I left "slapt-get --upgrade" running for me because, due to the fact that I'm on a fresh install of Slackware, my software was way behind.  Now, last time I did this I remember needing "libcairo.so.2" so before my upgrade I went and got cairo-1.0.2-i486-1.tgz from the Slackware ftp.  After the upgrade I opened Firefox to see if it worked, and I was running Firefox v1.5.0.4.
I turned off my computer and started it today.  I log in, whatever, "startx"
It gives me an error about not being able to access /home/deadly7/.ICEauthority and shut off X.
I did:
$ cd ~/
$ ls
And the file wasn't there.
So I tried "sudo startx"
And that worked.  Is there any workaround for this or am I just stuck with it?

[Quik]

First of all, the reason you weren't able to see it is because it's dotICEathority. Just like bash history and whatnot, it won't show up in a ls. Try cd ~/ && pico .ICEathority

[Ergot]

ls -a
I like --dist-upgrade better. Followed by some --install-set [a/ap/d/etc..]

[Joe]

Using --upgrade is a real nice way to break dependancies and kill your system.

[deadly7]

You know, you guys suck at helping me. :p

[Joe]

deadly: zomg, my system broke
Joe: --upgrade tends to do that
Ergot: Use --dist-upgrade

[Ergot]

deadly: zomg, my system broke
Joe: --upgrade tends to do that
Ergot: Use --dist-upgrade

Mmhmm! Just do what I said and next time keep an eye on the changelog. >

[deadly7]

Zomg even after dist-upgrade it no work unless I do sudo.
"/home/deadly7/.xinitrc: line 58: xcreensaver: command not found
Agent pid 1464
which: no dbus-launch in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/java/bin:/usr/lib/java/jre/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/lib/qt/bin:.)
xfce4-session: Unable to access file /home/deadly7/.ICEauthority: Permission denied
Agent pid 1464 killed"

[Joe]

"/home/deadly7/.xinitrc: line 58: xcreensaver: command not found

xcreensaver? Man.. I wonder why it doesn't work?

EDIT -
touch ~/.ICEauthority

[Sidoh]

touch joesmom

[wires]

Go ArchLinux!  Haven't had any problems yet.  Easy to update too, without breaking anything.

[deadly7]

Meh.
sudo chmod 0777 /home/deadly7/.ICEauthority
sudo chmod 0777 /home/deadly7/.Xauthority
gg
Closed.

[iago]

Meh.
sudo chmod 0777 /home/deadly7/.ICEauthority
sudo chmod 0777 /home/deadly7/.Xauthority
gg
Closed.

0777 is dumb. 

It sounds like root owns your configuration files. 

do:
chown -R yourusername.users /home/yourusername

Then set the permissions on your home directory to 0700 (unless you're running a webserver; then it should be 0711). 

Then set your configuration files to 0700. 

[deadly7]

It works!

[iago]

But it's dumb.  It gives anybody access to write to your files.  I don't care if you're the only user, using 0777 isn't something you should be accustomed to. 

If the owner is set properly, then 0700 will give you r/w/x access.  If it doesn't, then you don't own the file.  If you don't own the file, then "chown -R yourusername.users /home/yourusername" will fix it.  So do that instead.