Can't log-in !

[David M. Carney]

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 03:27:12 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Seeing as I finally got my SCSI burner to work (at least, with
> Nautilus), I proceeded to close the computer case, and unplugged the
> power cable of the CD burner, as it's noisy even at idle. I am going to
> need the burner very rarely so it's not too much trouble.
> 
> When I rebooted, Gnome refused to start ! Not even a 'fail safe'
> session !
> On clicking the 'detail' button, it revealed that it was unable to read
> some fil by the name of ~/.ICEauthority
> 
> Switched to the console, had a look, but the file was there !
> But looking at attributes, it appeared that only root had any sort of
> access to that file (-rw--------------- ), so I tried 'sudo chmod
> 777 .ICEauthority', then switched back GDM and Gnome eventually was kind
> enough to give me my much beloved desktop.
> 
> Scared the hell out of me (doesn't take much ;o) at first. If I was
> still with Mandrake, I would probably have re-installed the entire
> system, but because Ubuntu required me to get my hands dirty to get my
> hardware working, I have become much less worried by the console and
> things that don't work as expected.
> 
> So, thanks Ubuntu..in a way ;o)
> 
> Still, what the hell happened, why did the attributes of that file got
> changed so that I could not log-in anymore ???
> 
> A bit scary to think that you canlose your desktop so easily !! :-/
> 
> Vince, slowly recovering from a near heart-attack... ;o)
> 
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Personally, when that happens to me, I just delete my ~/.ICEauthority file. 

It will get recreated when you login.

I don't know if this is an "official" way of fixing the problem, maybe
soneone else will weigh in if they know a better way.

If you're afraid to delete it, just move it to another folder and try
logging in again.

David

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