[Nottingham] Could not update .ICEauthority file

[david at gbenet.com]

On 11/12/15 15:18, stripes theotoky wrote:
> Thanks to those of you who made suggestions.
> 
> For reasons I don't understand the permissions on my home directory where changed from 755
> to 555 so a simple chmod 755 /home/me fixed it but I have no idea how it got wrong in the
> first place.
> 
> Any ideas what could have caused this?
> 
> 
> happy Christmas
> 
> Stripes
> 
> 
> 
> On 11 December 2015 at 13:10, Jason Irwin <jasonirwin73 at gmail.com
> <mailto:jasonirwin73 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 11/12/15 12:40, stripes theotoky wrote:
>     > Has anyone seen this error on Ubuntu 12.04?
>     No, but have you been using "sudo" for graphical applications? Seems
>     that can screw your ICE
>     http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo
> 
>     This thread contains a number of other things that /might/ work
>     (although many posts are chown etc:
>     http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1841457
> 
>     You could do worse that then reinstall steps I guess (as well as the
>     chown/chmod/rm).
> 
>     Also this (more chown/chmod stuff):
>     http://askubuntu.com/questions/55568/could-not-update-iceauthority-file-after-login-independent-of-gnome
> 
>     I see many people suggesting "chmod 644 ..." as the answer, but I don't
>     see why "644" has any bearing (my own .ICEAuthority is "600").
> 
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The cause may have been an upgrade - am running Lubuntu 15.04 - I upgraded to 15.10 - wiped
out all my desktop :)

But see: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1841457

Happy Christmas from Makiti Philippines!

David





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