On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 03:24:08PM +0100, anthony gennard wrote: > I am gradually getting to grips with Jessie although its difficult without > any memory. Now I am lockout of my user account and do not understand the > error message which is as follows:- > > "could not update ICE authority file /home/john/.ICEauthority"
Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a console, and login there. Either as your regular user "john", or as root. You'll probably find that some of the permissions or ownerships under /home/john are incorrect. Start with /home/john itself, and then also check the file whose path is shown in this error. ls -ld /home/john /home/john/.ICEauthority If the owner isn't "john", or if the permissions look screwy, fix them. After you're done on the console, exit/logout from the shell, and press either Ctrl-Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to your display manager login.
