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I have installed vsftpd and did some commands in terminal like chown root:root /home/myusername. And the next time I started my computer i could not log in as usual. An error message that erupts which says Could not update ICEauthority. PLZ HELP ME I'm stuck with this. I used this link for vsftpd install.

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  • possible duplicate of "Could not update ICEauthority file" after login (independent of gnome)
    – Mitch
    Jul 29, 2013 at 10:36
  • What do you mean by "some commands" was the only one chown? If not what other commands have you run? By default ICEauthority is rw for the user only; which is probably "root" now.
    – AJefferiss
    Jul 29, 2013 at 10:38
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    This is not a duplicate, it has the same symptoms, but this is likely caused by changing all the home user owner, not just one file.
    – Javier Rivera
    Jul 29, 2013 at 10:50

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You will need to start Ubuntu in safe mode, then from the terminal issue this command:

chown myusername:myusername /home/myusername

Change myusername for your actual user name, of course. The problem looks like you make your home dir owned by root.

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  • Yet another reason for login loop beside the .Xauthority and /tmp.
    – so61pi
    Jan 3, 2017 at 2:52

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