Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

[Chmouel Boudjnah]

"Brian T. Schellenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> X would not start.
> 
> *That* is the problem.
> 
> /tmp should contain only temporary files; it should be perfectly safe to
> wipe out the entire contents of /tmp and reboot, but with 7.0 it is not.

what is the permission of your /tmp dir ? 1777 ? need them for xfs.

> Again, this is apparently fixed in 7.1, and moreover I don't think it
> has anything to do with the "clean up /tmp" code; it's a bug in the X &
> fontserver packages, so I'm not blaming you (unless you put those
> packages together as well).

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