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

[Nolan]

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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