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: s...@stt008:~$ ls -l / | grep tmp drwxrwxrwt 11 root root 512 nov 16 08:41 tmp Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.11.16.07.50...@gmail.com