Re: Lenny XDM won't start X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious mode (not 1777) or is not a directory, aborting.

To: Siju George <sgeorge.ml@gmail.com>
Cc: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Lenny XDM won't start X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious mode (not 1777) or is not a directory, aborting.
From: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:01:28 +0300
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Siju George <sgeorge.ml@gmail.com> writes:
> X: /tmp/.X11-unix has suspicious mode (not 1777) or is not a
> directory, aborting.

I googled for this and found

"Problem gefunden, das Gruppen-SUID-Bit war für /tmp gesetzt. :-/"

from http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user.german/browse_thread/thread/a03476dee2258dcd

which was the fourth hit.

What output do you get from "stat /tmp"?

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