Re: cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:58:22 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:49:43 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Sure looks like it. Mounting lenny's root partition on /other on my
> backup etch system, I get
>
> lovesong:/farhome/hendrik# ls -ld /other/tmp
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2007-12-31 10:05 /other/tmp
>
> This is about as wrong for /tmp as I imagine. (Well, no, I could
> imagine it being a file, or a named pipe -- that would work worse)
>
> Easy to fix, once diagnosed. Will report back after I have a chance to
> reboot.
>
> Thanks. How did you ever manage to think of this?
>
> -- hendrik
Works like a charm now. Thanks again.
-- hendrik
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