Description of problem: Occasionally when I boot my laptop I get an error message about the time X is starting up: "Could not create ICE listening socket: Cannot establish any listening sockets" With a "Log Out" button. (picture of screen attached) It appears to be harmless, as clicking "Log Out" seems to cause X to restart, and after one or two tries the error goes away and all is apparently well. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libICE-1.0.8-1.fc17.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.12.0-5.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: occasionally (two or three times since I installed the system a week ago) Additional info: This error seems to have been seen on older Fedora releases and reported as BZ 744965.
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this still can be reproduced in f17 + latest updates. it does happen maybe once at every few logins.
My Fedora 17 i686 XFCE spin has started showing this problem from today. It was working flawlessley for the past couple of months. Even after repeated tries, I am unable to login through the graphical login screen. I even cleared the sockets created under /tmp/.X11-unix /tmp/.ICE-unix and /tmp-.X0-lock, but the problem remains.
This is consistently reproducible everytime on my home pc. Are there any workarounds available? Please let me know if some logs and dumps from my machine may be helpful.
This info about my experience today may prove useful to the community. I can't SSH on Fedora 17 and have been troubleshooting the issue. One of the steps I performed was to edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file. I uncommented "# Port 22". After reboot I received the error: "Could not create ICE listening socket: Cannot establish any listening sockets" I'm a newbie as a linux admin, so I can provide more info if requested. What I know about my sysem is: Fedora 17 (fresh install) OpenSSH daemon is installed and running GPU: Nvida (Linus says Nvidia support is lacking: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/06/17/1415250/torvalds-slams-nvidias-linux-support) If I can help with any other info please let me know.
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