Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:
>
> "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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> San-Francisco, CA USA --Chmouel
This is a problem I reported months ago; civilme diagnosed it, and it
was apparently fixed for 7.1; it's not a problem that is causing me
active difficulty. (It was causing somebody else active difficulties
which is how this thread re-surfaced.)
My /tmp dir has 1777 permissions now; I believe that I gave it such
permissions as soon as I re-created it, but I could be mistaken. I *do*
know that re-booting did not fix the problem, but re-installing the X
font server package did; would it have reset the permissions to 1777 for
me?
Seems implausible, but one never knows . . .
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