K3B Fun

What's up with K3B?

This particular problem is on a Fedora 10 box.

I can't run this program by selecting it from the menu system. Nothing happens at all. Running the program from a terminal gives the following output.

kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : Permission denied
Could not bind to socket '/home/glenn/.kde/socket-johnboham/kdeinit_0'

Running the program as root from a terminal works just fine.

Another error that I see when the GUI comes up is

Unable to find growisofs executable.
K3B uses growisofs to actually write dvds. Without growisofs you will not
be able to write dvds. Make sure to install at least version 5.10.
Solution: Install the dvd+rw-tools package.

The dvd+rw-tools package is already installed.

It appears that the root cause of this problem is write access to the file .ICEauthority in my home folder.

kdeinit: Aborting. No write access to '/home/glenn/.ICEauthority'.

I've tried changing permissions but it seems that this file is re-created with root only permissions every time I try running the program.

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