[mythtv-users] .ICEAuthority corrupt for a second time

[Thomas Mashos]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 12/03/2011 04:10 PM, Tim Draper wrote:
>> as per the subject; my .ICEAuthority file has become corrupt for the
>> second time in 2 weeks.
>> deleting the file and rebooting recreates and fixes whatever the problem is.
>>
>> this shows itself as failing to open mythfrontend, although will wait
>> pending some timeout on the mythbuntu theme background texture (black
>> with dark grey lines)
>>
>> the first time it happened i dont know what caused it. I did loose
>> ADSL service, so i put it down to a network issue.
>> this time i closed mythfrontend, ran updates (both ubuntu and mythtv
>> updates), reboot as it required kernel updates, and then i had issues.
>>
>> while i havent checked SMART data yet (ubuntu repo's seem to be having
>> speed issues), bonnie++ suggests the disk is performing correctly.
>>
>> the machine is FE only, and runs mythbuntu 11.04 x64, with myth 0.24.1
>>
>> any ideas what could be triggering this? i've been using mythtv for a
>> year now and it's been perfect. i recently reconfigured my mythtv
>> setup as a seperate BE and FE setup, and this FE is about a month old
>> in it's install. the FE hardware proved fine in it's previous use.
>
> Likely, "corrupt" isn't the right word.  Usually this problem exists
> because /something/ on your system (and MythTV does not and could not
> ever do this) changes the ownership or permissions of the
> ~/.ICEauthority file.  Therefore, deleting it lets some low-level
> function in X's ICElib or whatever re-create it with proper ownership
> and permissions.
>
> My guess is that when it's broken, you will find root ownership if you
> do an ls -l ~/.ICEauthority
>
> Over the years, many programs have been known to mess up the
> ownership/permissions of this file...  Examples include k3b,
> kwifimanager, and many more (likely mainly ones which are run setuid
> root or actually run as root, i.e using sudo or ...).
>
> Rather than delete it, you /could/ just change ownership--but deleting
> is nice an easy.
>
> Mike
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You wouldn't happen to be using 'sudo' instead of 'gksudo' on GUI
programs would you?

-- 
Thomas Mashos