On 2020-09-01 17:38, Greg Wooledge wrote:
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.
Just my 2 cent in addition:
in the console you could either "blindly" set the user for all files in
your home or use find to see which files are not owned by USER.
*(A) sudo chown /USER/. /~USER//
*
*(B) find . -xdev ! -user /USER/*
