installed KDE only to experiment, and it destroyed my user. I receive an error that don't let me start X, after typing the password shows:

"Could not update ICEautohirty file /home/user/ICEauthority

Already tried google's few results:

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vi /etc/rc.d/perms
chmod -R 1777 /temp
chmod +x /etc/rc.d/perms

cd home
sudo chown -R user:user /home/user/ICEauthority
sudo chmod 644 /home/user/.iceauthority
sudo mkdir /var/temp
sudo chmod 777 /var/tmp
sudo chmod o+t /var/tmp

rm .iceauthority (didn't work)

sudo apt-get install gnome-session (nothing changed)
sudo apt-get -reinstall gnome-session (didn't work)

ls -l /home
sudo chown user:user /home/x/


rm -rf ~/.ICEauthority

After trying startx once more, just by opening the console it showed:
>fopen: permission denied
>no directory, logging it with home

By startx:
> fatal server error
> server is already active for display 0
> if this server is no longer running remove /tmp/.x0-lock and start again
> delxsiggiveup:closing log
> x connection to: 0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)

So I commanded:
rm -rf /tmp/x0-lock

and nothing showed up. So I tried only:
rm /tmp/x0-lock

and showed that:
>diretory doesn't exist

So I tried startx another time:
> fatal server error
> server is already active for display 0
> if this server is no longer running remove /tmp/.x0-lock and start again
> delxsiggiveup:closing log
>x10:fatal IO error 11 (resource temporarly unavaible) on Xserver
>'0' after 7 requests (7 known processed) with 0 events remaining

sudo adduser newuser


Logging with KDE-PLASMA, shows:
"Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation.

Still don't boot.

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>fopen: permission denied
>no directory, logging it with home

Based on this, it is likely your $HOME directory is inaccessible by your normal user.
Please check the permissions of /home to ensure it is at least rwx--x--x.

How am I suppose to do this?

Please provide the output of the following command:

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ls -lah /home

It showed:


ls: not possible access /home/.: denied permission
ls: not possible access /home/camarada
ls: not possible access /home/newuser
ls: not possible access /home/.:
ls: not possible access /home/.ecryptfs

total 0

d ?????? ? ? ? ? ? .
d ?????? ? ? ? ? ? ..
d ?????? ? ? ? ? ? camarada
d ?????? ? ? ? ? ? .ecryptfs
d ?????? ? ? ? ? ? newuser

Please repeat that invocation as root - the permissions on /home itself appear to be wrong.

bcooksley wrote:Please repeat that invocation as root - the permissions on /home itself appear to be wrong.

showed:

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total 20k

drw-r--r           5         root         root          4,0k        Mar         11         08:26         .
drwxr-xr-x        26         root         root         4,0k         Mar         11         09:31         ..
drw-r-rr--         3         camarada     camarada     4,0k         Mar         10         03:21         camarada
drwxr-xr-x         3         root         root         4,0k         Set         1          2013         ecryptfs
drwxr-xr-x         2         newuser      4,0k         Mar         11           08:26      newuser

I told you three days ago in IRC to try this:

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sudo chown -R user /home/user/

I don't know why you don't simply execute that command, exactly like I wrote it, but instead always slight variations of it which end up not doing what they should. And then, again, copy the output exactly like it appears on the screen if it doesn't work, not some censored / changed / approximate version of it.

scummos wrote:I told you three days ago in IRC to try this:

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sudo chown -R user /home/user/

I don't know why you don't simply execute that command, exactly like I wrote it, but instead always slight variations of it which end up not doing what they should. And then, again, copy the output exactly like it appears on the screen if it doesn't work, not some censored / changed / approximate version of it.

I already did. The command shows no feedback, goes to the blinking _
,as I already told you.

I copied the results exacly as it shows, including the spaces as demonstraded above.

"goes to the blinking", does it finish or not?

What does ls -la ~ say now?

Greetings!

scummos wrote:"goes to the blinking", does it finish or not?

What does ls -la ~ say now?

Greetings!

Yes, it's finished.

Without sudo

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ls: not possible access /home/.: denied permission
ls: not possible access /home/camarada
ls: not possible access /home/newuser
ls: not possible access /home/.:
ls: not possible access /home/.ecryptfs

total 0

d ????????? ? ? ? ? ? .
d ????????? ? ? ? ? ? ..
d ????????? ? ? ? ? ? camarada
d ????????? ? ? ? ? ? .ecryptfs
d ????????? ? ? ? ? ? newuser

With sudo

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total 20k

drw-r--r           5         root         root          4,0k        Mar         11         08:26         .
drwxr-xr-x        26         root         root         4,0k         Mar         11         09:31         ..
drw-r-rr--         3         camarada     camarada     4,0k         Mar         10         03:21         camarada
drwxr-xr-x         3         root         root         4,0k         Set         1          2013         ecryptfs
drwxr-xr-x         2         newuser      4,0k         Mar         11           08:26      newuser

The same.

What's your user name? Is what you posted the listing of /home/ or of /home/youruser/?

Also, try
sudo chmod a+x /home
sudo chmod a+x ~

The problem in this case is a lack of "traverse" permissions on /home - so you cannot access your home directory (located at /home/camarada).
Running the chmod a+x command scummos gave above should correct this issue.

scummos wrote:What's your user name? Is what you posted the listing of /home/ or of /home/youruser/?

Also, try
sudo chmod a+x /home
sudo chmod a+x ~

It shows "changed owner folder to only readble /home.." "changed owner folder to only readble /home/user/.private.." etc.

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sudo chown -R user:user /home/user/ICEauthority
sudo chmod 644 /home/user/.iceauthority
rm .iceauthority

shows: "the folder doesn't exist/empty"

Please set your locale to EN and paste the verbatim commands you execute plus the result. I don't understand what you're doing and thus I can't really help you.

shows: "the folder doesn't exist/empty"

I don't know why you keep executing those. The file is called ~/.ICEauthority. Not /home/user/ICEauthority or /home/user/.iceauthority or .iceauthority. So neither of those commands even has a chance of doing anything.