[Sussex] Help!

[Angelo Servini]

Thanks steve I will delete the .ICEauthority file and try again.

Cheers

Angelo.



Steve Dobson wrote:

>Angelo
>
>On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 10:51:22AM +0000, Angelo Servini wrote:
>  
>
>>I am unable to log in to gnome on Ubuntu
>>
>>The error is:   "Unable to read  /home/angelo/.ICEauthority
>>
>>I went into recovery mode and fired up MC and the file was there.   I am 
>>unable to make head or tail of it though.
>>
>>What do I do so that I can get in?
>>
>>Aaaaaaargh.  F*****!
>>    
>>
> 
>Login, you didn't need to duel boot.  If you hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 then it
>will provide you with a text only terminal login.  Use that method
>to login as "angelo" and the type the following commands:
>
>   $ ls -l .ICEauthority
>
>and
>
>   $ file .ICEauthority
>
>When I try them this is what I see:
>   $ ls -l .ICEauthority
>   -rw-------  1 steve staff 18482 Feb 26 09:57 .ICEauthority
>   $ file .ICEauthority
>   .ICEauthority: ICE authority data
>   $
>
>As I logged in at about 10 this morning it would appear that this
>file is modified during login.  I logged out and used a terminal
>login to check the file again and the modification time had changed
>to 11:05.  I them renamed the file and found I could log back in.
>A new .ICEauthority was created and I could log back in using 
>GDM with out a problem.
>
>This suggests that your .ICEauthority is corrupted or has the
>wrong permissions.  Delete it, (you may need to be root to do
>this), and then you should be fine.
>
>Note:
>  There are normally 6 terminal sessions on a x86 Linux system
>which can be accessed via Ctrl-Alt-F1 - Ctrl-Alt-F6 when in
>X11 mode or Alt-F1 - Alt-F2 when in terminal mode.  To get back
>to the X11 window session is normally Alt-F7, but just just work
>your way along the function keys until you find it.
>
>Steve
>
>  
>