Thank you all for your responses. Problem is now solved. What eventually worked in my case was, however,a little different from was suggested. I had to deleted the entire contents of the /tmp, and then run:
chmod 1777 /tmp chmod 1777 /dev/cdrom I worked! Thanks again. IM On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 06:45, David A. Bandel wrote: > On 21 Mar 2002 22:11:00 -0800 > begin Iraj Medifar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > > > On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 04:25, David A. Bandel wrote: > > > On 19 Mar 2002 22:16:09 -0800 > > > begin Iraj Medifar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth: > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > > Thanks. I did and here's what I got: > > > > > > > > esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777. > > > > Try -trust to force esd to start. > > > > esd: Esound daemon unable to create unix domain socket: > > > > /tmp/.esd/socket > > > > The socket is not accessible by esd. > > > > Exiting ... > > > > > > > > Well, is there a plain newbie translation of this? > > > > > > Must be _lots_ of stuff on your system broken. Users can't log in, > > > etc. > > > > > > Do this as root: > > > chmod 1777 /tmp > > > > > > then try again and post any errors. > > > > > > Ciao, > > > > > > David A. Bandel > > > -- > > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. Tried and here's what I got: > > > > esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777. > > Try -trust to force esd to start. > > esd: Esound sound daemon unable to create unix domain socket: > > The socket is not accessible by esd. > > Exiting... > > > > Practically the same message as before. By the way, the system doesn't > > appear to be broken at all. Users do log in and do anything they want > > and don't complain about anything. Grip is the only apparent problem. > > Then you have in /tmp a file or directory called .esd. Delete that and > try again. > > Ciao, > > David A. Bandel > -- > Focus on the dream, not the competition. > -- Nemesis Racing Team motto > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL. > -- _________________________________________ Iraj Medifar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
