[Techtalk] .ICEauthority failure to lock

[David Merrill]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:27:18AM -0500, Irene Sakellarakis wrote:
> 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?

Perhaps you don't have write permissions to that file? Can you
`touch /homedir/.ICEauthority`?

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