[conspire] Breezy No Login

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

You should probably stay away from KPackage then. The Kubuntu package
managing program is called Adept. Ubuntu has Synaptic. What you need to do
is Ctrl-Alt-F# where # is from 1 to 6, log in at the console, and delete
the file with "sudo rm .ICEauthority" followed by a Ctrl-D to logout. Then
Ctrl-Alt-F7 to switch back to X, and you should be able to log in.

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:39:33 -0800, John Andrews wrote:

> I was using Gnome and I tried Kpackage from the menu and it said I needed
> root privelages to use it but wouldn't bring up a password box.I finally ran
> it from a terminal and it ran normally then suddenly froze up. I went to
> tty0 to try and give it the kill signal which it disallowed. When I tried to
> go back to gui it wouldn't allow me to log in.The screen blinked on and off
> after the login screen and said jla did not have permission to start a
> desktop or something to that effect."home/jla/iceauthority" "could not start
> kmserever." I could get a blue swirl type screen plus terminal. I tried
> startx but no go. I could start the internet from terminal and the mozilla
> browser and netzero start page came up. But I couldn't start email or
> anything else.
>     How would you fix this? From the terminal or failsafe
> what is the procedure and/or directories to use.Thank you.Sometimes it
> doesn't pay to experiment too much but I was looking for Blackbox in
> Kynaptic or Kpackage.