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Re: installing X from -testing



Tom Allison wrote:
I ran into a problem installing X and running as non-root "mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied"

Root works fine, but no one else does.

help?

I was searching through the archives and found this earlier. Apparently the problem is in /tmp.

it's owned by root.root and cannot be used by anyone else.

This isn't a bug?

How do I fix this?

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