Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
- by JBWhitmore
The title is the first error that has sent me on a mission to fix things.
Motivation:
I was trying to install the new Enthought Python Distribution -- when the error above first showed up. The install finished -- and looked like there were a few more times it flagged dcopserver problems:
Please check that "dcopserver" program is running!
Could not read network connection list: ~/home/user/.DCOPserver_host__0
When running ipython from the distribution, it claims that readline (the ability to up arrow in history or tab-complete) is not available for my system. It is though -- if I run the ipython that's sitting in /usr/bin/ipython all readline features work perfectly. So, I tried to fix the install by trying to fix what I thought could be causing the problems.
Bad things that are happening that I want to be fixed:
When restarting I get the error: Could not update ICEauthority file /home/username/.ICEauthority.
ipython readline doesn't work with Enthought's ipython
Things I have tried:
changed the owner of my ~/.ICEauthority to be me.
changed the owner of home directory (and all nested files and folders) to be me
double checked that /var/lib/gdm was owned by Gnome (yep)
attempted to reinstall DCOP, kbuildsycoca stuff (fail)
I've removed nautilus; rebooted; reinstalled; rebooted; removed ubuntu-desktop; rebooted; reinstalled; rebooted.
Any suggestions on how to fix the Bad Things that are happening would be greatly appreciated!
Computer: Ubuntu 10.04 x86
