can't log in

[Stefan Kluth]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> 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.

see http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/RootSudo

Cheers, Stefan

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