Hi Clive, > That explained some of it, thanks. Tried the commands again and this > is what I got:- > > Tue Aug 24 16:39:55 BST 2010 > drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2010-07-25 23:33 / > drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 4096 2010-08-24 16:38 /tmp > Tue Aug 24 22:59:14 BST 2010 > drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2010-07-25 23:33 / > drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 4096 2010-08-24 22:55 /tmp > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2010-08-24 22:54 /tmp/.ICE-unix > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2010-08-24 22:54 /tmp/.X11-unix > > AND > > cl...@clive-laptop:~$ ls -ld / /tmp /tmp/.X11-unix > drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2010-07-25 23:33 / > drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 4096 2010-08-24 23:01 /tmp > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2010-08-24 22:54 /tmp/.X11-unix > cl...@clive-laptop:~$ > > Any good?
Yep, spot on! The contents of ./ralph.txt show you're recording the time and the state of those four directories, and the second's a subset of that. The directories permissions are all perfect at the moment. What I'm assuming is that when xorg complains about /tmp/.X11-unix's permissions being incorrect, stopping you from getting the login screen, the fault, or the underlying cause of it, may already be in place before you shutdown and by recording the state of the directories before shutdown in ./ralph.txt we'll get proof of the problem. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-09-07 20:00 http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ -- Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://bit.ly/4sACa
