Can't find /var/lib/gdm3/.ICE authority file
Hello everyone,
I am working on a debian server for which I have setup the Gnome Display Manager for local and remote access. After a huge mistake where I did chown -R for a user in directory / (don't ask why...) I couldn't access the server remotely. I fixed that by doing chown -R root / and now this is fixed. Nevertheless since I did that mistake I cannot access the server through the Display Manager and I get the following errors: Could not update ICEauthority file /var/lib/gdm3/.ICE authority and There is a problem with the configuration server. (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status-256) According to the many posts in this and other forums I have to delete the /var/lib/gdm3/.ICEauthority file along with some others. Although when I go in the directory those files are nowhere to be found: root@zeus:/var/lib/gdm3# ls -la total 16 drwxr-x--- 3 root root 4096 Nov 14 17:48 . drw-rw-r-- 62 root root 4096 Nov 14 17:47 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 13:51 .gconf.mandatory -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138 Nov 19 13:51 .gconf.path As suggested I changed the owner of the directory to root but still nothing. Can anyone help me please? Thank you, |
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Usually root logons with ssh and xserver are disabled by default. Are you trying to access the server as user or root? Is there a ~/.ICEauthority? Change ownership back to user. |
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What am I missing? |
You look like you have covered it.
Just a few thoughts. Look at the permissions on /tmp /var and ~ Then search for answers to the error you get. Good luck. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1333683 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...nf/+bug/577545 http://thingsyoudontlearnatschool.bl...blem-with.html http://www.linuxtrance.com/index.php...on-server.html http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-error-799626/ |
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None of the solutions work... Anyone else with any ideas? My var/lib/gdm3 directory is totally empty btw...
the .ICEauthority files for each user and root have permissions: -rw-r--r-- |
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