[Techtalk] .ICEauthority failure to lock

[Irene Sakellarakis]

I'm using Red Hat 6.1. If I try to startx under my user account (root
doesn't have this problem) I get an error:
"unable to lock ICE authority file: /homedir/.ICEauthority".

There is some indication that the problem is that the wm is trying to
access this file over nfs and is none too happy about it.

Short of creating a local home directory with the profiles needed, does
anyone know of a solution to this problem?

Thanks,
Irene