Re: gnome-session weirdness - was: can't logout from gnome-session

[Marcin Gorycki <mgo olicom dk>]

>> 
>> Very strange problem indeed, and it just started a couple of days ago:
>> 
>> I am using RH6.0 with gnome stuff that is included in this distribution.
>> The first time I log in to gnome-session (from gdm), after the computer
>> boots up, takes enormous amount of time (about a minute), and I can't log
>> out, but have to manually kill gnome-session. Subsequent logins are fast
and
>> I can log out using panel menu.
>> The weird thing is that I have happily used this system for about a month
>> now and the problem started to appear a couple of days ago. Is it a known
>> problem ?

>Yup - this is due to the .ICEauthority file being corrupted when Gnome
>crashes. Deleting your .ICEauthority file might work, otherwise upgrade
>to gnome-core 1.0.6 (Dax Kelson makes the Red Hat 6.0 RPMs).

>Michael Rogers

Deleting .ICEauthority worked for me, thanks!