COuld not update ICEauthority file

[popoff]

after the login window pops up:
COuld not update ICEauthority file /home/spas/.ICEauthority

after this:

Your session lasted less than 10 seconds.
If you did not make yourself a session, it may mean that there is a problem in the installation or there is not enough disk space. Try to enter one of the failsafe sessions to determine how to fix the problem.

View details (file ~ /. Xsession-errors)

/ etc / mdm / Xsession: Beginning session setup
localuser: spas being added to access control list

upd. I use LMDE with Gnome3.

[xenopeek]

Boot from rescue mode (in the GRUB boot menu you can select that; hold shift during boot to get the GRUB boot menu to show if not shown by default). Drop to the root console. Run the following two commands (one at a time) should hopefully fix this:

chown username:groupname /home/username/.ICEauthority
chmod 0600 /home/username/.ICEauthority

Replace username and groupname with your own username and groupname (by default your username is the same as your groupname). Username is the one you log in with.

[popoff]

it's didn't work. May I entered wrong personal information, example groupname? how i can find it?

[timber]

I realize this is an older post but I just experienced a similar problem with not being able to logon and the message "could not update .ICEauthority file".
Of course, my immediate response was panic ...

Background:
Using LMDE latest updates (UP5).
/ and /home are on separate partitions.
Problem arose when I installed a version of Puppy Linux on a different partition.

I'm not sure why or how it happened but immediately following the Puppy install I got the dreaded "could not update .ICEauthority file" message.
I wasn't able to fix the problem from the LiveDVD but was able to fix it from the LMDE logon by going to the console there (as another user here suggests).
In this case the problem was not with the .ICEauthority permissions (even though it appeared that way from the message) but (as noted below) with the "/home" folder permissions.

I got to the console (from logon screen) via Ctrl + Alt +F1 ... (Ctrl +Alt = F7 to return to logon after the fix)
I noticed that I could not change to the /home/username folder or even to the /home folder so assumed that permissions were some how corrupted there.

The Fix:

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sudo chown username:groupname /home

(In my case the username and groupname are the same).

Worked like a charm ... hope this offers others with another possible solution for this problem, should it ever arise.

[jhehe]

I realize this is an older post but I just experienced a similar problem with not being able to logon and the message "could not update .ICEauthority file".
Of course, my immediate response was panic ...

Background:
Using LMDE latest updates (UP5).
/ and /home are on separate partitions.
Problem arose when I installed a version of Puppy Linux on a different partition.

I'm not sure why or how it happened but immediately following the Puppy install I got the dreaded "could not update .ICEauthority file" message.
I wasn't able to fix the problem from the LiveDVD but was able to fix it from the LMDE logon by going to the console there (as another user here suggests).
In this case the problem was not with the .ICEauthority permissions (even though it appeared that way from the message) but (as noted below) with the "/home" folder permissions.

I got to the console (from logon screen) via Ctrl + Alt +F1 ... (Ctrl +Alt = F7 to return to logon after the fix)
I noticed that I could not change to the /home/username folder or even to the /home folder so assumed that permissions were some how corrupted there.

The Fix:

Code: Select all

sudo chown username:groupname /home

(In my case the username and groupname are the same).

Worked like a charm ... hope this offers others with another possible solution for this problem, should it ever arise.

Hi,

any chance you can tel me how i can find out my groupname? this is my first time installing so don't know much about linux and i am running into the same problem.

[xenopeek]

Usually your groupname is the same as your username. Following command will display your groupname:

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id -gn

[jhehe]

thanks, turned out it is the same and no modified. had me worried for a second that it was the generated computer ID during setup.