Lucid: "Could not update ICEauthority file /home/kevin/.ICEauthority

[Kevin O'Gorman]

No.  And I've been noticing the same thing on some of the machines at the
University
where I teach, at least for some users.

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Nolan <4030man at gmail.com> wrote:

>  On 01/03/2011 09:17 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> I've got a system that seems to have stopped being so healthy around last
> November.  It's still useable, but there's a nuisance factor.
>
> It's running Lucid.  When running my main user, I get the message from the
> Subject line, but I can click "close" and login proceeds normally.  I get a
> usable desktop, too (I'm  composing this on it).
>
> I've seen other complaints of the same general kind, but always different
> in one of these things:
> 1) My login completes
> 2) My .ICEauthority is already owned by my user's UID and GID, permissions
> 0600.
> 3) My home directory is already permissions 0755 (though I don't actually
> like that setup; I'd much prefer 0700).
>
> I do not know what this file is for, but renaming it to something else
> doesn't help either, so I renamed it back.
>
> Any clues out there?
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>
> ping Kevin
>
> Did you ever solve this problem?
>
> Nolan
>
>
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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