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wont boot

Asked by red_vino

HI I have just put on ubuntu 8.04 dual booting with xp. All was working fine for a week until i was loading on some extra programmes and the computer hung up / froze , i then had to restart the computer. On restart when i get to login i receive this message

"Could not write to file /home/ian/.ICEauthority must be writable for gnome to function. try logging in failsafe session and remove this file. Also make sure this directory is writable.

The xp boot is still ok.

So I am a newbie in Ubuntu what do i do to get the ubuntu boot back?

thanks ian

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Best Trygve Vea (trygve-vea-gmail) said : 		#1

Hello

What I suggest you do, is first of all to boot in recovery mode. Pick the option "root Drop to root shell prompt", and run the following command:

df -h

I suspect that your problem is that you're out of disk space. If this is true, your problem is solvable by freeing some disk space. I suggest that you run:

apt-get clean

to remove temporary .deb-files, stored when installing software earlier. (This does not remove any existing software on your system, and hopefully it frees enough space for you).

I hope this helps :)

Regards, Trygve

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red_vino (red-vino) said : 		#2

No, this did not work.
It tells me i have 13 gb 5.2 used and 7.1 gb available.
On resume normal boot i get the same messsage as before.

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Deepak Mishra (dpux) said : 		#3

>> Could not write to file /home/ian/.ICEauthority must be writable for gnome to function. try logging in failsafe session and remove this file. Also make sure this directory is writable.

did you do that ?
for making it writable:
sudo chmod -R a+r /home/ian/.ICEauthority

if you want to remove it :
sudo rm -rf /home/ian/.ICEauthority

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red_vino (red-vino) said : 		#4

Ok tried this but got the message that there was no such fle or directory.
Then when trying to reboot has error /etc/gdm/xsession and a whole line of stuff after that.
would it be easier just to reload Ubuntu from disc?
thanks

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Deepak Mishra (dpux) said : 		#5

i am sorry for one thing, to give the write permissions, the command is :sudo chmod -R a+w /home/ian/.ICEauthority

anyways, if it says there is no such file, just have look at your /home/ian , press ctrl+h to show hidden files too. is there something like ".ICEauthority" ? probably you misspelled it ?

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red_vino (red-vino) said : 		#6

Well nothing seemed to work, so I reformatted the entire disc and reloaded Ubuntu 8.04 (no windows xp at all).
So although problem not solved, i am thankful for your help.
cheers
ian

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red_vino (red-vino) said : 		#7

Thanks Trygve Vea, that solved my question.