Could not update ICEauthority file

[whitethorn]

Hi, try just moving it to something else then logging in again.

mv ~/.ICEauthority ~/.ICEauthority.bak

[Red.Dragon]

Nothing.

As soon as I logged back in and checked:

matthew@Voyager:~$ ls -l ICE*
-rw-r--r-- 1 matthew matthew 3864 2009-11-01 01:15 .ICEauthority.bak

[tudor117]

Try making sure your whole home directory belongs to your user.

[Red.Dragon]

Ah excellent, that's one thing I didn't check.

Thanks!

[Braytonio]

This happened to me when I (1) installed Karmic with the option "encrypt home folder", then (2) tried to change my password on my default account. This failed, but I could still log in with my original password. Then (3) I added some new software packages, including packages from the KDE.

Now when I log in, all I see in my /home/me folder is a filed called something like Access-Your-Encrypted.Data.desktop. I need the passphrase created during encryption, but of course that is stored in my /home/me/ecryptfs directory. I really did mean to write that down eventually.

A French forum suggested booting up without logging in, creating a new admin user (sudo adduser marcelmarceau admin), then logging in under that new account.

From there, install KDM, which the Frenchies said would provide the .ICEauthority file and voila! I am going to try that. Let you know.

[raywood]

The solution for me was to make sure the home folder belonged to the user. I've written up that and other possible solutions.

[badboy_2083]

I had the same issue I changed ownership of the entire home folder to the user. Just changing ownership of the file didn't work for me.

[squirlmazzta]

Is there a way that we can get rid of the threads that didn't solve this problem. This is the only one that looks like it worked. I used it and my box is running great now. I tried the stuff on the other threads and they didn't work.

[aoos]

sudo chown $USER:$USER /home/username/.ICEauthority
sudo chmod 644 /home/username/.ICEauthority

Hi ,i pasted these commands into my terminal, and i lost access to my account! i cannot even login! i get error about nautilus can't access home folder and such! Can you help?

[mikkellund42]

sudo chown $USER:$USER /home/username/.ICEauthority
sudo chmod 644 /home/username/.ICEauthority

This solved the problem for me. Thanks a lot!