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error on login

Asked by ricardo lopez

when i try to login i get an error that says: Could not update ICEauthority file /home/jarvis/.ICEauthority

then after that i get an error that says: There is a problem with the configuration server. (/usr/lib/libconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)

and then after i close that i get an error that says: Nautilus could not create following required folders: /home/jarvis/Desktop, /home/jarvis/.nautilus

can i get some help?

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Best Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

Please reboot and choose Recovery Mode from boot menu.
http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/images/resetpassword02.png

## If you don't see the boot menu press [Shift] key.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes#No%20delay%20for%20boot%20menu%20with%20GRUB%202

Then choose 'root shell'.
http://psychocats.net/ubuntu/images/resetpasswordthumb03.png

Then type:
chown bob:bob /home/bob/.ICEauthority
chmod 600 /home/bob/.ICEauthority
exit
reboot

## Replace 'bob' with your username

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ricardo lopez (lopez-ricardo92) said : 		#2

Thanks Sam, that solved my question.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

Background.
http://serverfault.com/questions/119580/what-is-iceauthority-file-in-opensuse-11-2
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo#Graphical%20sudo