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Old 10-19-2004, 09:17 AM   #1
Mr.Bone
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login problems


I was using my computer in a study hall and shut it down to go back to my dorm room and when i tried to log in to gnome it kept logging me out and giving me a message about the session lasting less than 10 seconds. I tried kde and i got an error "Warning unable to read ICE authority file: /home/steve/.ICEauthority". I tried to log into failsafe and it just logged me right back out. Where should i start in trouble shooting this?
 
Old 10-19-2004, 09:20 AM   #2
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there is another thread similar to this...http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...t=ICEauthority

So iam assuming that my permissions are set incorrectly..although i dont ever remember changing them. And i know that iam not out of diskspace. The problem is I cannot log in as root since there is no root user on ubuntu, and i only have one user.
 
Old 10-19-2004, 10:44 AM   #3
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The error you are getting has one of two causes:

- The permissions of your homedir are so that you cannot read from it.
- Your xdm (kdm, gdm) cannot write to your homedir (usually it is this error)

logging in in a console is not affected by this. go to a console (ctrl-alt-F1), log in, and chmod your homedir.

Good luck
 
  


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