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

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 30 août 2005 à 08:54 -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva a écrit :
> 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?

It could be some GNOME program run as root with HOME=/home/olivier.
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