On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:19:08 -0500
Derek Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
> One thing to check when having X problems is permissions or free
> space in /tmp/
Thanks.
That lead me to check something else: /var/log/auth.log. It is littered
with lines like:
error: Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display socket.
which also suggests a permissions or file space issue.
root@dragon:/var/log# cd /
root@dragon:/# ll -d tmp/
drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 4096 Nov 14 10:28 tmp/
root@dragon:/# ll tmp
total 44
drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 4096 Nov 14 10:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Oct 22 00:26 ..
drwx------ 2 backup backup 4096 Nov 14 02:49 amanda
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Nov 13 09:51 .ICE-unix
drwx------ 2 charles charles 4096 Nov 13 09:53 orbit-charles
drwx------ 2 charles charles 4096 Nov 13 10:11 ssh-qAkRnj3591
drwx------ 2 charles charles 4096 Nov 14 10:12 ssh-qTikG25476
drwx------ 2 charles charles 4096 Nov 13 09:51 ssh-xoxuvN2717
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 Nov 13 09:46 .X0-lock
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Nov 13 09:46 .X11-unix
-rw------- 1 charles charles 406 Nov 13 09:51 .xfsm-ICE-3W7H4V
root@dragon:/# df /tmp
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/dragon01-dragonroot
155G 2.8G 144G 2% /
root@dragon:/# ll tmp/.X11-unix/
total 8
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Nov 13 09:46 .
drwxrwxrwt 9 root root 4096 Nov 14 10:28 ..
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Nov 13 09:46 X0
root@dragon:/# find tmp -type s | xargs ls -l
srwxrwxrwx 1 charles charles 0 Nov 13 09:51 tmp/.ICE-unix/2717
srwxr-xr-x 1 charles charles 0 Nov 13 10:11 tmp/ssh-qAkRnj3591/agent.3591
srwxr-xr-x 1 charles charles 0 Nov 14 10:12 tmp/ssh-qTikG25476/agent.25476
srw------- 1 charles charles 0 Nov 13 09:51 tmp/ssh-xoxuvN2717/agent.2717
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Nov 13 09:46 tmp/.X11-unix/X0
root@dragon:/#
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