.ICEauthority

barn63 · 12-12-2006, 09:54 PM

I can't login to my user account because I do not have write access to .ICEauthority. Well after some research I see if you delete the file and relogin, it recreates the file with correct permissions. However, I can't delete the file. I even use root and I still get permission denied. Any help deleting this file?

rigelan · 12-12-2006, 11:13 PM

chmod 666 .ICEauthority
then delete it.

barn63 · 12-13-2006, 12:31 AM

I get permission denied when I try it as both my user account and as root.

kodon · 12-13-2006, 03:03 AM

why do you want to delete it?

barn63 · 12-13-2006, 07:00 AM

When I log into KDE, I get the message "no write access to .ICEauthority". I did research and found the solution to the probelm is to delete and relogin. This recreates the file with correct permissions.

kodon · 12-13-2006, 07:15 AM

what are the perms of the file now?
is your fs mounted ro?

barn63 · 12-13-2006, 09:03 AM

As of right now I can't view the file using ls -a -l. So I don't know the current permissions. I tired to change owners but I get permissing denied even when using root.

rigelan · 12-13-2006, 07:28 PM

what are the permissions of the directory you are in?

You might not be able to modify the directory.

tuxdev · 12-13-2006, 07:36 PM

What are the last lines of your syslog? This could be a symptom of bigger issues.

gnashley · 12-14-2006, 07:21 AM

Try chown root:root .ICEauthority as root and then remove it. I remember a post from some time ago about a similar problem where the person couldn't delete or alter a file-even as root. He asked: What do I have to do, login as Jehovah?

barn63 · 12-14-2006, 10:45 AM

I will give that a try and post results.

rigelan · 12-14-2006, 10:24 PM

good idea. Maybe I'll make a user named Jehovah on my system. :-)

barn63 · 12-15-2006, 12:06 AM

root@slack:/home/brian# chown root:root .ICEauthority
chown: cannot access `.ICEauthority': Permission denied

No luck!

dracolich · 12-15-2006, 09:56 AM

I agree with tuxdev:

Quote:

What are the last lines of your syslog? This could be a symptom of bigger issues.

Your system and messages log files will mention if your drive/partition was mounted as read-only instead of rw, and might even mention why. That should be your next step. In fact, it should've been a much earlier step when root is unable to delete a file.

barn63 · 12-16-2006, 12:31 AM

How can I tell if my drive/partition is mounted read-only or rw?