On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:58:22AM +0000, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:49:43 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:58:03AM +0000, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > was heard to say: > >> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session startup ... > >> Setting 1M through im-switch for locale=en_CA > >> Start IM through /farhome/hendrik/.xinput.d/en_CA linked to > >> /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/uim_toolbar. > >> failed in listen(): INvalid argument > >> mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied > > > > That almost sounds like you don't have write permission to $TMPDIR. > > Do you have any configuration that changes the value of $TMPDIR? (if > > you don't know about it you probably don't) What do the following > > commands output? > > > > ls -dl /tmp > > echo $TMPDIR
[snip -- glad to hear it worked for you] > Thanks. How did you ever manage to think of this? The main thing for me was to ignore all those messages about suid GTK+ programs; since the log continues past those messages, it's a good (although not certain) bet that they're unrelated to the problem. Once I read past them I saw the failures above (listen and mkdtemp), which sound like a program trying to create a listen socket in /tmp and failing. In particular, there's no other obvious reason for mkdtemp to fail with "permission denied"; even "nobody" can write to /tmp on a default Debian system. As Andrew said, that message is a pretty big clue, once you've waded through all the other chatter in the log. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]