No write access to /home/user/.ICEauthority

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edday

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Posts: 2

Location: Texas

Occupation: Education

Monday, August 13th 2007, 8:08pm

No write access to /home/user/.ICEauthority

I've tried to find a fix for this problem for this user. This is the second stage of trying to fix a crash of Amarok.

Stage 1: I had started Amarok as root (in order to access my Ipod). Amarok crashed and took the system with it. Trying to log back in resulted in a failure due to full temp files.

State 2: I think that I was able to successfully get rid of the temp file overfill, but then an attempt to log in gave the message:

No write access to '/home/user/.ICEauthority KDE unable to start (then: could not start ksmserver. OK)

When I examine the home directory for this user, there is no .ICEauthority file.

When I do a "locate" command for .ICEauthority, it shows that this file exists for this user.

If I try to do either a chown or chmod for this file for this user I get:

cannot access `/home/edday/.ICEauthority': Input/output error

My OS is PCLinuxOS 2007, 1gb ram, Dual boot with WinXP.

Any help would be appreciated.

Ed Day

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mdcg2004

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Posts: 30

Wednesday, August 15th 2007, 9:16pm

ad 1: Why do you start amarok as root ??????
if you want to access your iPod via Amarok and KDE doesn't mount it automatically (it normally does when you plug in your device after a few seconds, even Amarok suggests using it as your mobile music device!), you may mount iPod manually and instruct Amarok to use that mounted directory as your mobile music device. The only point where you may act as root is in mounting the device and setting the proper rights, that the normal user may use it.

ad 2:
How about creating a new user e.g. "testuser", logging in to that user und start amarok?
Do you still have the same problem? If not, then copy the file /home/testuser/.ICEauthority to /home/edday/ as root, then do "chown edday /home/edday/.ICEauthority". Be careful, the file has the rights -rw------- , that means only the user has read and write access to it. You can set the proper rights with "chmod 0600 $HOME/.ICEauthority" after logging in as the user edday

Debian Linux, mix of stable, testing and unstable; KDE with Compiz Fusion >=0.52 (git)

This post has been edited 2 times, last edit by "mdcg2004" (Aug 15th 2007, 9:19pm)

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edday

Beginner

Posts: 2

Location: Texas

Occupation: Education

Friday, August 17th 2007, 5:03pm

Re: No write access to /home/user/.ICEauthority

ad1: For some reason, PCLOS did not mount the ipod automatically. As a user, I could only mount it as root. Having done so, I was not able to change ownership or change permissions to allow a group to have rwx access. In order to access the ipod, I had to run it as root.

ad2: I have done this. I finally created another user and this one is behaving normally. I am able to run amarok as user and connect to the ipod.

As root, I have tried copying the .ICEauthority file from this user to the edday account. I get the input/output error message that my post reported.

At this point, I am really just trying to understand what has happened to corrupt this user account so that in the future, it if happens again, I can know somewhat how to correct it.

Thanks for taking the time to help.

Ed Day

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mdcg2004

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Posts: 30

Friday, August 17th 2007, 6:43pm

you're wellcome

Debian Linux, mix of stable, testing and unstable; KDE with Compiz Fusion >=0.52 (git)

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