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What is .ICEauthority and how do I fix it?

Follow Question Posted by Renk81 on Sep 29, 2011

For the last few weeks every time I try boot to Ubuntu 11.04 I have been getting the following error:

Could not update .ICEauthority file /home/username/.?ICEauthority

I gather it is a file of importance, but the other users on the system have not been getting the error message and I have concluded permissions are not the culprit... Any suggestions?

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1 Immortal on Sep 30, 2011

Level 9 Something messed up your user privileges...try:
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to enter the shell
$ sudo chown user:user /home/user/.ICEauthority
$ sudo chmod 644 /home/user/.ICEauthority
$ sudo chown -R /home/user
$ exit
Ctrl+Alt+F7
Few restarts and it should be working normally...good luck and keep us posted on your progress :)

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2 barryween on Sep 30, 2011

Level 3 Just don't forget to change the "user" from above post with your user_name - the one you are having problems with :) Backing up first is also recommended.

From Ubuntu forums, this seem to be another one that's working for most of people experiencing the same problem:

sudo chown -R $user:$user /home/$user/.*

where $user should be replaced with your username.

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3 Renk81 on Sep 30, 2011

Level 3 Thanks guys I got, two seconds before I checked your posts, long form though. The directory ownership was off.

dr-xr-xr--

Got it from the terminal with:
$ ch /home
$ chmod u+w username

Rebooted haven't seen the error again, yet

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4 Immortal on Oct 04, 2011

Level 9 So it was user privileges after all...many people are complaining about the same problem I wonder what causes it

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