Re: deleted /tmp ruined X, how to recover?
Hi, thank you all so much for the replies.
Desperated, I reinstalled Linux on my PC. I learned a lesson and a lot
of knowledge from you all. But now I could not boot to my NT partition.
I run fdisk and see clearly NTFS partition is there and marked as
bootable (that *). I also added an entry
under /etc/lilo.conf
others = /dev/hda1
label = dos
But I get the msg: "image not found" when I type "dos" at lilo.
During the reinstallation, I noticed my NT partition didnt appear when
the program asked me about boot partition labels.
Can I still add that manually?
thanks a looooooooooooooot
Ben
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Heather wrote:
> > Bryan, thanks a lot for reply.
> > I tried to set the permission to the new /tmp to 777. startx as root,
> > still get the same result. the error msg are as followed:
>
> It needs to also be sticky:
> chmod +t /tmp
>
> > _Font TransSocketUNIXConnect - can't connect:error=111
> > failed to set default path 'unix/:-1'
> > Fatal server error
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> >
> > I also install the font server but still the same. What can I do still?
> >
> > thank you
> > Ben
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> >
> > > Recreate /tmp and make sure that the permissions are set correctly so that users other than root can read the directory.
> > >
> > > -Bryan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 04:28:21PM -0400, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I got a message saying the file system on which /tmp is located is full.
> > > >
> > > > Thinking /tmp contains only temperary files, I deleted them all. But after that
> > > > I can no longer start X. I can still run Xconfigurator and configured
> > > > successfully.
> > > > But startx keeps failing.
> > > >
> > > > what should I reinstall? I want to avoid reinstalling from scratch.
> > > >
> > > > thanks a lot for your hint
> > > >
> > > > Ben
> > > >
> > > >
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