No Write Access 'ICEauthority'

[macminiman]

OK, well, Ubuntu is great! But I've been installing packages with the Add Applications package manager, and I don't know if that has to do with my problem. Well, I booted into ubuntu, everything started up fine, and then I came to my login screen, which is controlled by kubntu (I installed kde using apt-get install kubuntu-desktop). I selected GNOME from the session list, and type my username + password. It starts to login, then gave my the grainy screen (which it has never done before), and then came directly back to the login screen. I was confused by this as ubuntu never gave me any trouble before, so I selected KDE from the session list, and gave my username + password. This time, it gave me a error message:

X-server error: No write access to: '/home/craig/.ICEauthority'

Obviously I need to do something about the permissions, but I don't know how to do this in linux, only in osx. I can still get a failsafe terminal emulator, and the real fullscreen terminal, but neither will show the hidden files. Can you guys help me? If so, thanks alot! If not, back to osx only.

[wylfing]

I am not certain what you mean when you say the terminal won't show hidden files. Does this command work?

ls -l .ICEauthority

You may be able to remedy the issue by issuing this command:

sudo chown craig .ICEauthority

Also, if you are using KDE, I have read reports of certain tasks that must be performed as root or else they can aggravate .ICEauthority, one of them being K3B.

[macminiman]

Thanks!
I'll try that as soon as I get back to ubuntu. As for the hidden files, I meant like .gnome, .icons, .ICEauthority, .gimp, and all the files and folders you can't see in your home folder until you select 'Show Hidden Files'. And before I used

sudo chmod 755 /home/craig/.ICEauthority

but it didn't work.
Thanks again!

- craig

[jdp]

To show "hidden" files in a terminal, us the -a switch with ls. So it'd be ls -la to have a detailed list of every file in the current directory. Or, just ls -a to show the full list of files, including hidden ones. By long standing UNIX default, any file starting with a period indicates a file that shouldn't show up on a regular ls. When using a root terminal, it defualts to showing every file.

[r3v3rs3pa]

ya, i have run into the same problem...
run in from the failsafe terminal and just delete them.
i played with ownership and i had problems with some .dmrc file a few times.

yes, i am sure this could be considered a dirty fix, but i hadnt found anything else that worked... and i have used this method about, oh, i'd say 6-7 times with no failures. the only thing i notyiced that i lot was the next login, i had no default session type saved. OH NOES.

* so click session type BEFORE logging in
* select failsafe terminal
* then login
* um so in the FAILSAFE terminal from home dir...
* enter the following... what is INSIDE the quotes-->
* " rm .Xauthority "
* " rm .ICEauthority "
* " exit "
* now select your session n pick gnome/kde
and login like normal. sure beats a reinstall or bashing my head into the keyboard.