Never mind. JFGI. Had to chmod 777 on /tmp. I now appear to have a normal session on my computer, woo hoo!
-PT On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Peter Tenenbaum < peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com> 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 > > When I try to use failsafe gnome, I get the error: > > /usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256 > > I can log in using failsafe terminal (so user account information has been > recovered properly). > > Any suggestions for what needs to be done? I have a Debian-live rescue CD > and a Debian-live with Gnome DVD, both of which run correctly. > > Thanks in advance, > -PT >
