On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 03:24:08PM +0100, anthony gennard wrote:I am gradually getting to grips with Jessie although its difficult without any memory. Now I am lockout of my user account and do not understand the error message which is as follows:- "could not update ICE authority file /home/john/.ICEauthority"Press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a console, and login there. Either as your regular user "john", or as root. You'll probably find that some of the permissions or ownerships under /home/john are incorrect. Start with /home/john itself, and then also check the file whose path is shown in this error. ls -ld /home/john /home/john/.ICEauthority If the owner isn't "john", or if the permissions look screwy, fix them. After you're done on the console, exit/logout from the shell, and press either Ctrl-Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to your display manager login.
Just my 2 cent in addition:
in the console you could either "blindly" set the user for all
files in your home or use find to see which files are not owned by
USER.
(A) sudo chown USER. ~USER/
(B) find . -xdev ! -user USER