logon problem

[Michael Scottaline]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 22:15 -0800, Tom Preston wrote:
> I have ubuntu with gnome installed on a p4 1.8ghz clone.  Nice stable
> install for weeks.  Now when I try to log on with my admin account, I
> get the following error.
> 
> Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds.  If you have not logged
> out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or
> that you may be out of disk space.  Try logging in with one of the
> failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem.
> 
> I can log in the terminal window with failsafe but don't know what to do
> to fix it.  The error message listed in /.xsession-errors starts with
> 
> Unable to find transport:tcp
> IceTransmkdir: ERROR: euid !=0, directory /dev/X will not be created
> IceTransmkdir: ERROR: cannot create /dev/X
> IceTransPTSOpenserver: mkdir(/dev/X) failed, errno=13
> IceTransOpen:transport open failed for pts/(computername):
> 
> 
> I can log on with a non-admin account and it works fine.
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Try this:
Login in as user
sudo mc
go to the root folder and delete .ICEauthority

Now log out and try to login as admin

HTH,
Mike

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