[Nottingham] Could not update .ICEauthority file

[david at gbenet.com]

On 11/12/15 12:40, stripes theotoky wrote:
> Has anyone seen this error on Ubuntu 12.04?
> 
> I have already done all the usual things.
> 
> ls -al
> which shows .ICEauthority is owned by me and has rw permissions. I reset it anyway.
> 
> chown me:me .ICEauthority
> chmod 600 .ICEauthority
> 
> log out and back in no change
> 
> mv .ICEauthority .ICEauthority.old
> 
> log out and back in no change
> 
> rm .ICEauthority
> rm .ICEauthority.old
> 
> log out and back in change
> 
> ls -al /home
> 
> /I own the directory /home/me but change own just in case
> 
> /
> /sudo chown me:me /home/me
> 
> /
> /log out and  back in no change.
> 
> /
> /log into a testing account and everything works fine.
> 
> /
> /The only thing I can log into from the graphical interface is the Recovery Console
> 
> /
> /From testing I can log onto Gnome, Gnome no effects, Unity, Unity 3D and recovery console
> just fine.
> 
> /
> /Neither the drive nor the home directory are encrypted so it shouldn't be an ecrypts problem.
> 
> /
> /Any ideas? The box was working just fine connected to a hotel wifi lastnight and won't work
> on the home wifi this morning. As far as I know the only thing to change in the last 12
> hours was downloading  few meg of scans from my home server.
> 
> /
> /Stripes
> /
> 
> 
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If you can log into a terminal then:
sudo usermod root -p password; sudo passwd root

You can at least get into GUI as root and then look at the permissions and change them -
look at the logs etc

Be Happy

David

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