Re: Can't login when using kdm (KDE)

[Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com>]

check the sticky bit on /tmp. sometimed it loses the sticky bit during 
installs (IIRC) and then you can't log in.

andrew@basement:/$ ls -l | grep tmp
drwxrwxrwt   13 root root  2048 Sep  3 15:01 tmp
         ^--- you should have a t here.

chmod 1777 /tmp should do it.

NOTE: I have no idea what the rest of the permissions are supposed to be 
for /tmp, but this works for me.

A

rs wrote:
> > I moved ~.Xauthority out of the way and let it be recreated. Works for
> > me now.
>
>
> Removed ~.Xauthority and tried to login via KDM. The ~.Xauthority file was recreated but it had the size of 0 bytes. Not sure why.
>
> When I login via regular console first and then start KDE with "startx", the ~.Xauthority appears to have some valid info and everything works fine.
>
> Thanks
>
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