[SOLVED] ICEauthority error

[JakeWatkins]

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

Is the error I get every time I boot up.. and it doesn't let me log on until I hit "OK"

[aysiu]

Boot into recovery mode and choose to drop to a root shell. If you don't know how to do that, check out the first half of this tutorial.

Then type

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

and resume the normal boot. That should fix it.

[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

[aysiu]

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

[Sohlman]

Hi, I have some sort of the same problem.
First i got this message.

"User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the default sessin and language from being saved. File should be owne dby user and have 644 permissions. User's $HOME directory must be owned by user and not writable by other users."

then i did

sudo chown user:user /home/user/.dmrc
chmod 644 /home/calle/.dmrc
sudo chown -R calle /home/calle

Then when i restarted the computer i got

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

and

"Norwegian" Det er problemer med konfigurasjonstjeneren. (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 avsluttet med status 256)
"English" There is a problem with the configurationservice. (usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 ended with state 256)

There is only one option "exit", after that i only see a blue screen and my mouse. i could press CTRL-ALT-F3 to open console login, i enter uername and password and im in the desctop console/terminal, but don't know what write after that...

So pleas any help i cant use the computer, now im using a second pc to find the solution. and also pleas say what information you need to help me fix the problem.

[kinemagician]

I have exactly the same problem described by Sohlman....

[SvenRieke]

There is only one option "exit", after that i only see a blue screen and my mouse. i could press CTRL-ALT-F3 to open console login, i enter uername and password and im in the desctop console/terminal, but don't know what write after that...

I have the same problem suddenly with my new Karmic, first the .ICEauthority message, then the usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 one.
My Gnome session isn't able to boot up correctly.

Tried to remove the .ICEauthority file, like mentioned in another thread, but that doesn't help.

I fix the problem at least for one session with:

• Ctrl-Alt-F1 to enter a shell (login, password)
• sudo service gdm restart to relaunch the desktop, now everything works fine.

But during the next boot-up, I get the same errors again.