X ICE error when logging in

[David M. Carney]

On Thursday 24 November 2005 10:06 pm, Brian Walker wrote:
> On 11/25/05, David M. Carney <carney1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Whenever I have this problem, I just delete my ~/.ICEauthority file and
> > all is
> > well in the world again.
> >
> > No need to install icewm.
> >
> > Any idea why this happens though? Personally speaking, I like icewm in
>
> preference - quick and clean - I was going to set about installing it
> sometime <ahem> soon .... but I wonder why a perfectly good system decided
> to create an ~/.ICEauthority file in the first place?
>
> Many thanks for the comment David!
>
> Brian

Not sure why it's needed. It may be corrupted by it's permissions or ownership 
being changed. 

For instance, I think I read somewhere where it's ownership could be changed 
to root by the use of some programs while logged in as root or possibly via 
the sudo command.

Perhaps chowning it back so it's owned by the user might make deleting it 
unnecessary....

David

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