After unclean shutdown, /home/username/.ICEauthority required not to exist or to be writeable

[maramot]

Binary package hint: gdm

I had ordered a shutdown but there had been no activity and I couldn't click anything (the desktop had frozen) so I just turned the computer off by keeping the power button pressed for a few seconds. On the next startup, after I had logged in with my usual username/pass I had a window show up which said something in the lines that the file /home/my-user-name/.ICEauthority was either *existent* or not writeable. I was asked to log in with a failsafe session and either remove the file or make it writeable. I did just that -- logged in with a failsafe session, ran sudo mc and deleted the file which was shown with a "?" in front of its name, was red in color and had a size of 0 bytes. After that I logged in normally and made an account in launchpad :) My ubuntu version is the latest updated 8.10 Since the whole thing happened at startup, I'm writing gdm as the source package.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

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[maramot (georgi-antonov)]

I don't really know what lead to my computer locking like that, so I can't think of a way to intentionally reproduce it :(

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you still get the issue?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.