topic Re: ICEauthority Problem in HP-UX machine. in Operating System - HP-UX

ICEauthority Problem in HP-UX machine.

jagadeesh_5 — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:56:18 GMT

Hi,

When i try to login HP-UX machine through Reflection/X-win32. I 'm getting following error message.
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The Authentication file ~/.ICEauthority could not be created.
IF the files ~/.ICEauthority-c and ~/.ICEauthority-l exist, they muct be removed before your session can be started.
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Could anyhow identify what is problem in that.

Rgds,
Jagadeesh

Re: ICEauthority Problem in HP-UX machine.

Artyom Voronchihin — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 03:16:24 GMT

X authorization records are stored and removed from the ~/.ICEauthority file

When you start an X session a new record is appended to it. If you have a crash, stale records can hang around ie authorization records are not removed, and if you restart a new session, there could be a chance that you would use the same socket id and be denied access.

Remove .ICEauthority* files in your home directory on the UNIX box. At next X session start it should be recreated automatically.

Re: ICEauthority Problem in HP-UX machine.

jagadeesh_5 — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 03:23:01 GMT

Hi,

I had tried removing that .ICEauthority file from home directory of one of user account and he is not root.
After restart of X session still pointing to same problem.
Let me know, Could i do it on root?

Re: ICEauthority Problem in HP-UX machine.

Artyom Voronchihin — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:07:52 GMT

Hello!
Check ownership for the user's home directory and its content. It's definitely recommended to do nothing on root in user's homes because it can be the cause of wrong ownership.