Login problem

[Tom Spangler]

I work at a large site with many 700 class workstations (C200s and 240s). We recently updated to HP-UX 11.0 and ever since, some users are getting a message when they log in that says "~/.ICEauthority file could not be created, one already exists." Nobody can tell me what this file is or what it's used for. It appears that when the user is logged in, the filesize of this file is 127 bytes, and when they are logged out, the size is 0 bytes. Some kind of lock file, perhaps? A reboot usually fixes this problem, but then it comes back the next day. Deleting the file makes no difference. Has anyone seen this before?

[Berlene Herren]

Check the permissions of the $HOME directory. It should be 755 and owned by your userid, group id should be your primary group.

Berlene

[Tom Spangler]

I have checked this and it's fine. Even if the permissions were set wrong, why would a reboot fix it temporarily? The odd thing about it is that in only affects some workstations and they all got the exact same load.

[Rita C Workman]

I knew I remembered reading something about .ICEauthority. And I know because I have two users who do this via my workstation....so here are a couple things you might want to check out.
First: http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/iceauth.1.html
Second: http://my1.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,1150,0x6aea6c96588ad4118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Hope these help you,

[Alex Glennie]

Make sure your users are not sharing the same $HOME directory but having different UID's ! or that only one user is logged in per CDE session / host .... still problems ?

What's your users enviroment ... have you an unusual setup ?