Hi friends,
After updating my system and then installing kmyfirewall and fwbuilder with sudo, I restarted my box and when trying to login, I was getting this error:
xfce-session: Unable to access file /home/shantanu/.ICEauthority: Permission Denied
Whereas I'm able to login with root but not with user (shantanu).
Then I looked into forums and found
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.p...t=iceauthority . So, i tried copying the file ICEauthority, Xauthority, and change permission as described in the thread, but that too did not work. Then after looking a while in the forums, I got a clue to delete the account using userdel and then re-create the same account with adduser with the same directory (/home/shantanu). But now I'm getting:
no directory, logging in with HOME=/
Then I logged back in as root and created another account called "test" but again got the same error with this account also, ie, "no directory, logging in with HOME=/."
Finally, I tried to change permission of the folder /home/shantanu after logging in as root and doing:
chmod -R 755 /home/shantanu
But still getting the same error. Then I created another user test2 with home directory being /media/test2. Now, i was able to log in as normal.
NOTE: My / is hda9 and /home is hda8. I guess it is the problem with hda8 since the directories hda8 is not accessable by users but only by root.
Can anyone please suggest something. Also, i dont want to lose the settings of my account.
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Thanks in advance.
Ravi S Ghosh