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I am getting a message

Could not update ICEauthority file /home/me/.ICEauthority

When trying to log into Ubuntu graphically. I can log in using Ctrl+Alt+F1

This is not a duplicate of:

What does this startup dialog message mean "Could not update ICEauthority file"

In my case my .ICEauthority is -rw------- 1 me me ...

Things I tried to do to fix this:

  • reset the ICE file's permissions in case something was messed up that I did not notice.
  • delete the file (no new one was created)
  • touch a new file after the orig was deleted
  • looks like my home directory was owned by root. fixing did not help.
  • .ecryptfs has correct permissions on my home directory
  • autologin is off, never was turned on
  • fresh install so no password changes (i'd prefer not to re-install my os because I did spend a day setting it up)
  • only weirdness found was: /home/.ecryptfs/me/.ecryptfs/wrapped-passphrase is -rw------- 1 me root 48 ..... however that should not be an issue or so it would seem due to permissions

I installed gnome after installing the system

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install gnome-shell

I've never booted into it (or anything else rather except for tty) successfully.

Zanna
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Dmitriy Likhten
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7 Answers7

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Yes, there is a problem in Gnome, here is the solution, instead of uninstall and re install ubuntu, at least you can save your data backup

sudo apt-get install lxde

Installed after that do Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to the login screen,

now select lxde in the drop down menu, entered my password, you can able to now login to an LXDE session

AMIC MING
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I just had the same issue. I got rid of it by using the following command: 

sudo chown user:user /home/user

Replace user with your user name.

Zanna
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Adame Dahmani
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I fixed a similar. ICEAuthority problem which due to the aes module can't be installed in booting, for padlock not detected, in a word, you should blacklist the padlock_aes module like:

cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ecryptfs.conf
blacklist padlock-aes

I also post the detailed steps, FYI.

penreturns
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user71371
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I had the same problem and here is how i fixed it:

  • I logged into the system as root
  • deleted the user account that had the ICEauthority error (userdel user)
  • I then recreated the same account only this time i used a -m switch that created a home directory for the user(useradd -m user)
  • I set the password to the account using this command (passwd user)
  • I logged out of my root account.
  • Logged in using the new account and VOILA, the no more ICEauthority problems.

  • Login was Successful.

  • I think the problem might have been when you created the user account, u didn't tell the system to create the home directory for that particular user.

Zanna
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Sean
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I am going to re-install ubuntu. Cannot debug this. Probably gnome3 install borked it.

Dmitriy Likhten
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I was having the same problem, in my case my home directory owner got changed to root somehow.

changed it to my user and it worked:

cd /home
sudo chown user:user <homedir>

I did not use -R flag option because only the top level directory was affected.

Zanna
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user2321520
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I had the same issue, After reading posts about using chown on .ICEauthority, I decided to try changing the Read/Write permission on the file .ICEauthority with chmod.

It was originally: -rw------- So I changed it to: -rw-rw-rw-

And it worked! (I used chmod 666 /home/$USER/.ICEauthority)

Worth a try I suppose...

Zanna
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aaaaagh
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