OlanK
May 20th, 2011, 05:41 AM
I use Ubuntu 9.10, but I'm sure this solution carries over to other releases.
You will likely receive an error about gconf-sanity-check along with the .ICEauthority error.
Reboot: Press ESC after your BIOS has booted to reach the grub recovery menu. Choose root from the list.
chown gdm:gdm -R /var/lib/gdm
chmod 600 /var/lib/gdm/.ICEauthority
mv /home/*username*/.ICEauthority /home/*username*/.ICEauthority.old
chmod 1777 /tmp
Change the "*username*" to your username.
This should fix the problem, or at least, it did for me.
You will likely receive an error about gconf-sanity-check along with the .ICEauthority error.
Reboot: Press ESC after your BIOS has booted to reach the grub recovery menu. Choose root from the list.
chown gdm:gdm -R /var/lib/gdm
chmod 600 /var/lib/gdm/.ICEauthority
mv /home/*username*/.ICEauthority /home/*username*/.ICEauthority.old
chmod 1777 /tmp
Change the "*username*" to your username.
This should fix the problem, or at least, it did for me.