could not update ICEauthority file /var/lib/gdm.ICEauthority
hi to all,
i am using fedora11 64 bit.My problem is,today morning i start the computer,then an error raised. i.e could not update ICEauthority file /var/lib/gdm. ICEauthority actually yesterday ,i changed the permissions of /gdm file,with this command i.e chmod -R 777 /var/lib/gdm keyboard& mouse are not working... plz help me, my system is not working now... how can i solve this problem with out loss of any data. Thanks in advance.. |
Suposse you are trying to login as john and getting error could not update ICEauthority file /var/lib/gdm. ICEauthority.
Then login in CLI as root and do this Code:
chown -R /home/john/.ICEauthority Code:
ls -ld /home/john/.ICEauthority |
hi prayag,
thanks for reply... to do what u said,the error is coming before login page. due to this keyboard&mouse are not working help me |
Press CNTRL+ALT+F2 you will get black and white screen with login prompt.Login there as root
and do whatever I have mentioned in my earlier letter. |
Thanks for your response. However, I am unable to move ahead yet.
This is what is happening with me: When I turn on the power, and press CTRL + ALT + F2, it stops and asks to select OS (to boot). Only Fedora is listed there. Other options shown below are 'C' for command promt, etc. So I use C to go to command prompt. There, on pressing tab, I can see a list of commands; which includes root, rootnoverify, boot, reboot, find, verbose, debug, help, hide, etc. When I type root, it says Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e. ls, chmod, chown nothing works. I tried to find the file - find . -name /var/lib/gdm.ICEauthority or find /var/lib/gdm.ICEauthority, it cannot find the file. What do I do so that I can start my system? :'( |
As many of you, I spent a lot of time in forums, google, changing permissions, etc...finally I figured it out by myself...First, I checked the user:group properties of the directory gdm, and they were root:root, however, everything inside directory gdm was gdm:gdm....so common sense indicated to me to change the properties of directory gdm to gdm:gdm and it worked...Thats all, hope it work for you!
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