[SOLVED] ICEauthority error

[Sorrin]

I had the same error, and was able to fix it using the instructions shown above (changing the folder permissions to 644).

Another option is to log in as root, remove the user that generates this error, and create a new user...

[orawax]

It seems that automatic login is currently broken in Karmic.

I had a recurring problem with .ICEauthority but couldn't figure out when it started. Then I enabled automatic login also in my laptop, and got the same problem there. So I disabled autologin and since then the error's gone.

[semasont]

I don't know for certain, but it's possible that running a graphical application with sudo (instead of gksudo) might have messed up your .ICEauthority file. More details here:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo

had the same problem. think you're right, because yesterday I started KlamAv (KDE -.-) in Console with:

sudo klamav

After reboot (for other reason) I got the .ICEauthority error.

Unfortunately I didn't recognize the logs in console while starting KlamAV....

Thanks to aysiu, this solution worked fine for me

[technicallygeek]

chown jake:jake /home/jake/.ICEauthority
chmod 644 /home/jake/.ICEauthority
exit

This seemed to fix the error I was receiving about profile updates. I just logged in as root (yes I know ) issued the command logged out and logged back in under my user account and no error message

[coyotepod]

tried the chown and chmod methods as root did not work for me either, nor did deleting the .ICEauthority file. still searching...

I did some sudo stuff in the last couple days (never rebooted) then recently updated packages (12/5/09), rebooted and got the double ICE / gmd error messages

[Kobalt]

Same problem here unfortunately. First error message :

Could not update ICEauthority file /home/kobalt/.ICEauthority

And then:

(usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 has quit with state 256)

After this I get an error that Nautilus cannot create the following folders : /home/kobalt/Desktop and /home/kobalt/.nautilus
At this point nothing else happens, the systems stops displaying an empty wallpaper and doesn't load anything else.

[Kobalt]

OK, my problem is solved : I had changed my account password and didn't modify my encrypted /home passphrase. It's now done, and all is working great again. FYI

[leapfrog7]

Just to give some input, the only problem I had was the:

Could not update ICEauthority file

I did not boot in recovery mode, but I did the chown and chmod codes and it fixed it for me. I did enter them as root user also. Hope you all can fix yours