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Good Morning,

I have 2 computers...a DELL Inspiron 6000 laptop, and a DELL Dimension 8400 desktop--BOTH running 32bit LMDE.

The laptop updates OK. The desktop gives me an error message "Could not update ICE authority file /var/lib/gdm3/.ICEauthority".

I've previously posted this on January 31, 2011 here:

http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... ce#p376501

None of the proposed solutions worked, so I reinstalled LMDE 2011 32bit, and for all of one week, it updated OK (handling up to 13 updates max per day).

Now after 173+ updates from squeeze this morning, the error .ICEauthority message has returned. I shouldn't have to reinstall LMDE every week....

But, again, no problems on the laptop adding 173 updates.

Any ideas? Suggestions?

Please help.

Thank you in advance.

do not know if this is of help, but might be worth a try:

http://www.absolutelytech.com/2010/01/2 ... n-booting/

Looks like the post above and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/432492 both refer to Ubuntu experiences with this fault, but the answers are similar. Apparently it has to do with gdm and setting chown correctly to rid the problem. I have not encountered it before so I'm not sure what the answer is since the launchpad info on this was from 2009. I tried the Debian forums and didn't find anything there either.

Hopefully someone will come along that has seen this real-time and took action to resolve. Following the ubuntu fix may exacerbate the problem so I'd only implement if you can back out to pre-fix attempt conditions.

I found a solution here
http://www.absolutelytech.com/2010/01/2 ... n-booting/
cd /var/lib/gdm3
then
sudo chown username:username .ICEauthority
sudo chmod 0644 .ICEauthority

where username is your username

Every time I try to Update LMDE using this set of commands
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
I get a series of errors ending with these:

Preparing to replace gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad 0.10.22-2 (using .../gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10/libgstxvid.so', which is also in package gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad 0.10.22-0.1
configured to not write apport reports
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad_0.10.22-3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

What should I be trying in order to get my LMDE to update?

pada wrote:I found a solution here
http://www.absolutelytech.com/2010/01/2 ... n-booting/
cd /var/lib/gdm3
then
sudo chown username:username .ICEauthority
sudo chmod 0644 .ICEauthority

where username is your username

This command fails for me at
"cd /var/lib/gdm3"

I get "bash: cd: /var/lib/gdm3: Permission denied"

Did you leave out some intermediate steps here?

Tim,
your
error has nothing to do with this topic here, check this http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... er#p500951