Could not update .ICEauthority file
I recently came across this error on my CF-28. I am currently running Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala. [Which, BTW, is currently at Beta stage.] This error is known on many distros and across a large time-frame, so this is by far not a new problem. For a brief amount of time it did leave my computer useless, because I could not mount any external drive (which I have nearly all my personal and other files on). And at times the X server would not start, which I had to manually start via the terminal. What caused it I am still not sure, but it basically changed my permissions to an underprivileged user. I first tried this from here:
Press Ctrl+Alt+F3, and login as your user
$ sudo chown user:user home/user/.ICEauthority
$ sudo chmod 664 /home/user/.ICEautority
$ exit
Which turned out to not entirely fix the problem. Then as you read down, where someone had a similar problem but with the .dmrc file. I tried something similar to his script but changing .dmrc to .ICEauthority (which I got the idea from here):
$ sudo chown user:user /home/user/.ICEauthority
$ sudo chmod 644 /home/user/.ICEauthority
$ sudo chown -R /home/user
$ exitPress Ctrl+Alt+F7
And, BINGO, it worked! Now my permissions are back the way they are supposed to be and I can login as usual. Feel free to ask questions!
byrd
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