Could not update ICEAuthority file /home/neha/.ICEAuthority

Question

Hi I am getting Could not update ICEAuthority file /home/neha/.ICEAuthority issue when I am loging from my account on Ubantu 12.4.

Please help me

Solution 1

Finally I solved it by my own using

ctrl+alt+F1

It will ask for user/password

then

 rm .ICEauthority

then restart system and it worked for me.

I got help from here

Really thanks to this link

Solution 2

I had the same issue. After reading many posts about this error, I have come to the conclusion that it has to do with creating files and directories sometimes as root and sometimes as the user. As a result the ICEauthority is so garbled that it convinces itself it is corrupt. This is how i fixed it:

Boot to login screen:

ctl+alt+f1

Login with username and password: $ su

Root password

# sudo chown -R username:groupname /home/username

This should reset all the permissions in the users home folder to all match

alt+f7

Try broken username and password; it should work.

Solution 3

I had the same issue, Do not remove this file !, all you have to do it change the ownership of your home directory and add the correct permissions !