Unable to lock ICE authority file: /usr/simon/.ICEauthority

Simon Meaden simonmeaden at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Apr 28 16:20:16 UTC 2004


As an update on this I placed a link in /usr, linking to /home/simon.
This worked OK but is only a workaround. I would appreciate a fix if
anyone has one.

Regards
Simon

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 13:00, Simon Meaden wrote:
> I have recently upgraded to Fedora from Redhar 9. At first everything 
> was fine, then I started recieving the above message at login.
> Apparently the login program thinks that my home is at /usr/simon rather 
> than /home/simon wher it was originally. 
> I attempted to  delete the original user 'simon' and recreate a new one 
> which worked for a while then the problem resurfaced.
> 
> Any ideas would be welcome. 
> 
> Regards
> simon
> 





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