From: Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx> To: am497@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Can't access username Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:01:19 -0700 On 10/13/2011 09:42 AM, Bill Kuns wrote: > I've installed Fedora 15 four times. The same thing happens. > > When I try to log on to username, I get a message: > > Could not update /home/username/.ICEauthority > > What am I doing wrong? Possibly nothing. Check the ownership and permissions of your home directory. "username") should own it and have rwx permissions: [rick@prophead ~]$ ls -ld ~rick drwx------ 102 rick rick 12288 Oct 10 18:30 /home/rick If not, as root, change the permissions and delete the ~username/.ICEauthority file: sudo chown username ~/username sudo chmod u+rwx ~/username sudo rm -f ~/username/.ICEauthority Then log out. When you log in again as username, the file should be recreated. This has been reported on Ubuntu and several other distros and whatever caused it may have crept into Fedora somehow. It appears to be something from an upstream package that Fedora also uses. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, C2 Hosting ricks@xxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Microsoft Windows: Proof that P.T. Barnum was right - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- It worked perfectly; thank you. -- Bill -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
