[SOLVED]Unable to boot into KDE4

[scarper]

Hello. This morning I did a few updates and I afterwards I noticed that I couldn't delete a document. I then rebooted my laptop and tried logging in and now it won't let me boot into KDE. The message was:

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The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE:

      No write access to $HOME directory (/home/mark).

KDE is unable to start.

Then after I click on the OK button a pop-up comes up saying:

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Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.

I then booted into IceWM and it worked. I then installed LXDE through the Terminal in order to see if my files were still there and it worked.

Any ideas on how to fix this so I can boot into KDE??

EDIT: I've attached the file ".xsession-errors"

[daniewicz]

Can you change the permissions of /home/mark from LXDE?

[scarper]

Can you change the permissions of /home/mark from LXDE?

Well what I've tried so far are some commands listed on other threads that describe a similar or the same problem, and most if not all tell me to run this command in a terminal which is this. I've also tried variations of chown such as: this, and this, however I still get the same error when booting up KDE.

Here are what the permissions look like on my system:

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ls -al /home
total 52
drwxr-xr-x  5 root   root    4096 Jul 23 16:46 ./
drwxr-xr-x 21 root   root    4096 Jul 23 13:01 ../
drwx------  2 root   root   16384 Jan  5  2014 lost+found/
dr-xr-xr-x 58 mark   mark   20480 Jul 23 10:08 mark/
drwxr-xr-x  5 xguest xguest  4096 Jul 23 16:47 xguest/


I'm guessing I need write access since compared to the xguest account that's the only difference; xguest does boot into KDE perfectly. I'm not sure how to change that though for my account.

[jkerr82508]

In a terminal, become root

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su -

and enter the root password when asked

and then enter

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chmod -R u+w /home/mark

Jim

[scarper]

In a terminal, become root

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su -

and enter the root password when asked

and then enter

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chmod -R u+w /home/mark

Jim

Thank you so much it worked!!! I'm marking this as solved now!