segmantation fault and .ICEauthority

kaz2100 · 07-12-2006, 10:35 AM

Hi Penguins.

I am posting this hoping it helps somebody.

With my Debian penguin, I screwed up NVIDIA driver. (I was installing 1.0-8762, hoping it would be faster or fancier.... than 1.0-7174) This attempt resulted in major disaster. (totally dead penguin)

After several fsck sessions. I re-installed 7174 again. With root, gnome kicked in OK. However, xfce does not kick in at user level. (startup screen comes up, then everything blacks out)

Code:

startx >& errorlog &

deteted

Code:

** ERROR **: fvwm4: Segmentation fault
aborting...

so that I reinstalled fvwm4, which did not change anything.

One line above,

Code:

iceauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/user/.ICEauthority

Removing .ICEauthority solved everything.

jonr · 07-12-2006, 01:38 PM

I've found the same true on my system. When I first started using Linux I thought everything was done for, when I got the .ICEauthority message. Now I just treat it as an annoyance, and as for you, it generally restores normal operation after deleting the file.

I think I learned to do this on LinuxQuestions.