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Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system



On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:28:11 -0800, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:

> I recently had to recover from a hard drive failure in my Debian squeeze
> desktop computer.  After the usual thrashing around I have managed to (I
> think) recover all my files and configuration information from backup,
> get grub installed, and get all the grub configurations set properly so
> that Debian boots and I am greeted with the Gnome login screen. 
> Unfortunately, When I enter my username and password I am informed that
> my session lasted less than 10 seconds, and that if I did not log myself
> out then something must be wrong.  When I view the ~/.xsession-errors
> file, what I see is:
> 
> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup ... mkdtemp: private socket
> dir: Permission denied

(...)

Check "/tmp" perms:

sm01@stt008:~$ ls -l / | grep tmp
drwxrwxrwt  11 root root  512 nov 16 08:41 tmp

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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