can't log in

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 08:39:10AM +0200, ulrich wrote:

> hit Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a console, login, then 
> 	'sudo chown $USER:$USER .ICEAuthority'
> where $USER put your username.
> the problem is, after updating some package chowns this file to
> root:root, and youre not able to login.

No package does any such thing; that would be a serious bug.

This apparently happens if you run some unsupported KDE apps under sudo.

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 - mdz