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airplanesrule
August 10th, 2008, 06:36 PM
I just tried installing and playing around with time vault, and i saw that it was deleting some files, i figured this was normal, but now gnome and kde won't start (even in failsafe mode), it says that
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User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default session and language from being saved. File should be owned by user and have 644 permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users.
"
then, once i press ok to that, it says
"
The GNOME session manager was unable to lock the file '/home/andy/.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.
"
please help

thanks in advance-airplanesrule

stoneage
August 20th, 2008, 07:53 PM
Hi, this thread fixed it for me:-

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=618692&highlight=iceauthority

airplanesrule
August 24th, 2008, 11:16 PM
thanks, but i tried that and it didn't work, i just reinstalled ubuntu, thanks anyway