Bug#325701: gnome-session: unable to launch gnome due to bad group/owner on .ICEauthority

Gustavo Noronha Silva kov at debian.org
Tue Aug 30 11:54:30 UTC 2005


Em Ter, 2005-08-30 às 11:38 +0200, Olivier Schwander escreveu:
>           ** (gnome-session:7151): WARNING **: Unable to read ICE authority
> file: /home/olivier/.ICEauthority
> 
> A solution is to change owner/group of the file .ICEauthority from root:root
> to username:username.
> 
> I think it is a problem in the preinst script.

preinst scripts are not supposed to mess up with your home directory;
how did that .ICEauthority arrive at your home directory in the first
place?

I bet it is not a problem in gnome-session, but some other thing that
messed up by writing that file there. Any ideas?

See ya,

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