Failure to load GNOME

[Jackelope King]

I had a strange error come up today while trying to boot Ubuntu. Before my desktop comes up, an error message informs me:

GNOME session manager unable to lock the file '/home/<username>/.ICEauthority'. Please report this as a GNOME bug. Sometimes, this error may occur if the file's directory is unwritable, you could try logging in via the failsafe session and ensuring that it is.

However, when I attempt to load the Failsafe GNOME session, I get the exact same error message.

I ran the recovery program through Grub and found no broken packages.

This is probably a simple fix, but I have no idea what to do. Can anyone help me?

UPDATE (1 hour later): And now, after shutting down an hour ago, getting dinner, and booting up at home, it loaded right up. Very strange. Any ideas as to what happened?

[JDuc]

I have just run into this exact same issue...INCLUDING leaving it alone and coming back later and it booting up just fine.

Anyone???

[xjcannonx]

Did you recently do anything with partitions or modify /home or anything else...

[JDuc]

didn't change anything with partitions. All I did was install then uninstall then reinstall some items for Syncing my phone (WM 6.1).

Seems strange that it would fix its self while the computer was off though....

[eBoxNet]

spooky lol