On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:58:22AM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:49:43 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > 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 > > 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? I'm not sure how Daniel managed to think of it, but it does pop up here from time to time... just one of those things people see enough times to remember. plus mkdtemp is a pretty good clue ;) A
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