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Bug 165923 - .ICEauthority file's location can not be set; gnome quits on smb-shares
.ICEauthority file's location can not be set; gnome quits on smb-shares
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: gnome-session
Classification: Core
Component: gnome-session
2.8.x
Other All
: High critical
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Assigned To: Session Maintainers
Session Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-02-01 12:27 UTC by David Spitzer
Modified: 2006-11-01 19:22 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.7/2.8


Description David Spitzer 2005-02-01 12:27:24 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. Mount a smb share as the home directory
2. Start a gnome session



Stack trace:
No stack trace available

Error message is
** (gnome-session:1289): WARNING **: Unable to lock ICE authority file:
/home/Administrator/.ICEauthority

Other information:
Seems to be the same for NFS shares and other file systems. It's absolutely
impossible to use gnome with "roaming profiles" - which should be a standard
feature. The iceauth executable lets you choose a directory where to store the
file by using the -f switch. gnome-session doesn't seem to offer this, although
the .Xauthority location can be set in gnome.conf
Comment 1 Tom Tromey 2006-10-01 22:46:56 UTC 
You can set the environment variable ICEAUTHORITY to hold the
name of your ICE authority file.  gnome-session and everything it
starts will then respect this.

Does this help?
Comment 2 André Klapper 2006-11-01 19:22:22 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for.
Thanks!