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funny

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Registered: 2008-01-28

Posts: 44

Could not update /var/lib.gdm/.ICEauthority

Hi,
I had to resize root partition. I backed up partition at another disk (dd if=/dev/sda of=...).
After resize partition I copy file back from backup.
Now when gdm start up  I see error  Could not update /var/lib.gdm/.ICEauthority

I find on google that I have to chown -R root:root /var
but this don't resolve my problem

Szelek

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From: Warsaw

Registered: 2008-09-03

Posts: 86

Re: Could not update /var/lib.gdm/.ICEauthority

I have the same problem, but I didn't do any update, just rebooted the system.

grey

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: Could not update /var/lib.gdm/.ICEauthority

Given that you just restored from backup I would first check what else is broken. Is everything mounted as it should be? Are command line tools working? Can you start X via startx?

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karantani

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From: Texas

Registered: 2010-08-15

Posts: 36

Re: Could not update /var/lib.gdm/.ICEauthority

hi everyone this is my first time posting here i got the messege

could not update ICEauthority /var/gdm/.ICEauthority

when i turned on my computer and i i tried a lot of thing to fix it,command lines from people who had a similar proble on the web,anyway i solved it by going to my home folder and removing  .ICEauthority
then i rebooted my computer and i dong get the messege anymore

acustodioo

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From: Brasil

Registered: 2010-11-09

Posts: 1

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Re: Could not update /var/lib.gdm/.ICEauthority

Solution to my problem

# rm /var/lib/gdm/.ICEauthority*
$ rm ~/.ICEauthority

thanks very much karantani

Last edited by acustodioo (2011-02-22 07:55:01)

zeus86

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Registered: 2011-05-13

Posts: 2

Re: Could not update /var/lib.gdm/.ICEauthority

same problem here, and i don't know why this happend, anyway, the way described above did it, thanks for that, but one addition: I had to delete not only the .ICEauthority in ~/ and /var/lib/gdm , but also in ALL user-home-dirs, also in /root.

Last edited by zeus86 (2011-05-13 03:15:47)