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,
--
kov at debian.org: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov>
Debian: <http://www.debian.org> * <http://www.debian-br.org>
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