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

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

tnx alot dude.

peace

Do you use commands like:

sudo nautilus
sudo gedit

etc?

yeah i know simple ones. why?

ok here is what caused your problem. I will also tell you how to avoid this.

sudo is NOT for graphical applications like nautilus and gedit and you can and WILL garbage file ownerships. You will most likely find that the file was owned by root so you get the issue. This is due to th fact that sudo is ONLY for command which stay i the terminal like cp, mv, ln, apt-get, aptitude etc.

gksudo is usd for grahical apps like gedit, nautilus, vlc etc and setup the environment for the graphical app as there are different settings which need configuring for the command to run properly.

Due to the incorrect environment for nautilus etc, the ownership gets given to root in the majority of cases and causes problems.

To avoid this in the future remember to use gksudo for graphical apps. (You can technically use gksudo for both)

kool man, tnx alot
dats realii a huge help.
explains everiithin.

ciao

Awesome explanation. And it really solved the ICEauthority problem. I will alias sudo with gksudo :)

Not sure whether it is appropriate to make these comments here, but they may be helpful to someone else with this problem...

I also had this problem which was solved by actionparsnip's suggestion (although I used "sudo") thanks.

I was also getting the message: "There is a problem with the configuration server. (usr/lib/libconfig2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)" this was also solved.

Your suggestion that these problems can be created by the use of sudo also make sense - I was recommended to use that in the past to try and get the screen working in 9.10.