5.10 boot up issue

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Wed Oct 12 12:21:14 CDT 2005


On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 08:34:39AM +0100, Paul O'Malley wrote:
> Due to an unfortunate circumstance I learned of this only five minutes ago.
> The existence of a root owned ".ICEauthority" after a rather rude 
> shutdown in the home directory of a user.
> This causes (as I am sure you all know) a less than 10 second login.
> Should this file be checked for in all ~username/ directories and 
> removed without question?
> It should only impact a very small percentage of users but that in 
> itself is bad.

This bug has been around for quite some time; if you have new information,
please add it to http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2053

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 - mdz



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