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Re: cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade



On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:58:03AM +0000, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> was heard to say:
> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session startup ...
> Setting 1M through im-switch for locale=en_CA
> Start IM through /farhome/hendrik/.xinput.d/en_CA linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/uim_toolbar.
> failed in listen():  INvalid argument
> mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied

  That almost sounds like you don't have write permission to $TMPDIR.
Do you have any configuration that changes the value of $TMPDIR?  (if
you don't know about it you probably don't)  What do the following
commands output?

ls -dl /tmp
echo $TMPDIR

  Daniel


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