securitybreach Posted October 6, 2004 Posted October 6, 2004 I ran across this problem. I couldnt log into Gnome. I would just keep getting sent back to the login screen. When I tried to login to KDE I would get this error " no write access to home/security/.ICEauthority KDE is unable to start" I could only login to IceWM. I found the folllowing fix:chown user -R /home/user"user" being the user you can't log intoNow my question is why did this happen. I didnt install anything or make any system changes. If anyone could help it would be greatly appreciated. Quote
Bruno Posted October 6, 2004 Posted October 6, 2004 Hi Breach It looks like your /home/<user> directory is corrupted . . . did you have a bad shutdown or powerfaillure ?.My suggestion: log in as root, make a new ( temp ) user and see if you can log in as that user . . . then move essential files over from /home/breach and after that delete the normal ( first ) user ( also the /home directory for it ) Then recreate that user and move the files back from /home/temp-user. Bruno Quote
SonicDragon Posted October 6, 2004 Posted October 6, 2004 You can move files and such into your home folder with different permissions.... that doesn't explain why the .ice file was touched. Strange ;)Could you have possibly chmoded or chowned your /home by accident instead of something else so that it could only be read or changed by root? Quote
securitybreach Posted October 6, 2004 Author Posted October 6, 2004 After I chown user -R /home/user, it fixed the problem completely. It may have been a bad shutdown, I dont remember. I had it fixed I was just wondering if anyone knew why this happened. By the way what is .ICE anyway? Quote
Bruno Posted October 6, 2004 Posted October 6, 2004 Glad you found a simple solution Breach . . . . reading more about it, just deleting the ICEauthority file and letting it getting recreated seemed to do the trick too.What exactly ICE is I do not know but it is closely related to the Xauthority file. ICEauthority & Xauthority are two files that have to do with starting the X-session. ICEauthority must point to a file that contains authorization data.See "man x" ( http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man7/x.7.html )Now some explanation how this could have happened: I've seen this happen if you login as a normal user, then su to root and then run startx. For some reason, the ownership of the file then gets transfered to root. . . . I remember you were experimenting with having multiple X sessions . . . . . so there might be the cause BrunoUPDATE: Google comes up with the following on ICE:- In-Circuit Emulator- Integrated Cluster Environment (IBM )- Incremental Configuration Environment- Introduction to Computer Environments Quote
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