Hi Clive,
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/623294
>
> Looked at that but confused as to what it says!
Simply put, you're getting an error from xorg saying the permissions on
/tmp/.X11-unix aren't as it wants, but its earlier code, attempting to
set the permissions to that value are flawed.
> > > ls -ld / /tmp /tmp/.X11-unix
> > >
> > > show now, when it's all working?
>
> drwxrwxrwt 2 root 4096 2010-08-24 13:07 then /tmp/.X11-unix was
> highlighted in green box (a directory?)
Colours don't matter here, thanks.
> > Clive, it would be helpful if you were to do that command just
> > before shutting down and record the result. Then we'd be able to
> > see if there's a pattern that matches whether the following boot
> > works or not. I'd suggest
> >
> > (date; ls -ld / /tmp /tmp/.{ICE,X11}-unix) >>ralph.txt
>
> just run the above output failed with:
> ls: cannot access /tmp/.ICE--unix: No such file or directory
> ls: cannot access /tmp/.X11--unix: No such file or directory
You must have run something slightly different because there are two
minuses in the errors. Don't attempt to re-type it into a terminal
window because, unless you understand the meaning of every bit and
twiddle, it's hard not to make a typo if you treat it as plain text. I
suggest you copy and paste it from the email to the terminal.
Then, to give us the output, copy and paste from the terminal back to
the reply. Include the shell prompt before, where you entered the
command, and the blank one after. That way we can see that what you
actually entered, and tell that the output finished by the re-appearance
of the shell's prompt. So, for the first command above, it would be
something like
$ ls -ld / /tmp /tmp/.X11-unix
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2010-07-24 07:23 /
drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 20480 2010-08-24 07:35 /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2010-08-14 09:08 /tmp/.X11-unix
$
(`$' is my shell prompt, yours will be different and longer.)
The second command above, the
(date; ls -ld / /tmp /tmp/.{ICE,X11}-unix) >>ralph.txt
one that builds up a log of results in ralph.txt in your home directory,
stores its output in that file so you won't see anything, the shell
prompt will just re-appear. A cut-down version that will display it on
the screen is
(date; ls -ld / /tmp /tmp/.{ICE,X11}-unix)
I've just removed the re-direction that appends the standard output of
the commands onto the end of ./ralph.txt.
Cheers,
Ralph.
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