Login Failure ICEauthority Corrupt

[Ben Edwards]

Are you sure it is corrupt and hot that the ovnership has been
changed?  Have you recently run k3b as root (this will change the
ownership of this file)?

Try the following

Ctrl+alt+F1 to get a text console and log in.

ls -l .ICE*

Is the ovnership root?  if so do

sudo chown _username_  .ICEauthority
sudo chgrp _username_ .ICEauthority

Ctrl+alt+F7 to go back to GDM

Ben.


On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 05:16:31 -0600, jean <jeanw777 at rushmore.com> wrote:
> I tried to change my screen background and it didn't change (has
> happened before) so I logged out and tried to log back in as before and
> I received a error that that ./ICEauthority file couldn't be read and it
> won't start the desktop again. I let's me do a xterm to edit the file
> and make corrections  but I don't have a clue as to what to change.. All
> my updates are current as I just checked b4 this to see if there were
> any updates and there where none..
> 
> Help!!!!!
> 
> Anyone have a clue on fixing this issue?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jean
> 
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