Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:38:07 -0800, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Never mind. JFGI. Had to chmod 777 on /tmp. I now appear to have a > normal session on my computer, woo hoo! Don't forget the "sticky bit" as Jochen suggested. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

Peter Tenenbaum: > > Never mind. JFGI. True. :) > Had to chmod 777 on /tmp. /tmp usually has the sticky bit set. That makes sure that nobody can delete other peoples' files. J. -- Scientists know what they are talking about. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

Peter Tenenbaum: > > /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup ... > mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied Can your user write to /tmp? Google suggests to 'chmod 1777 /tmp'. J. -- I have been manipulated and permanently distorted. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

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.

Re: Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

...adding: is it possible that some permission was not set correctly when I restored backups (the backups were made via dump command). 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 squeez

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 insta

Problem with gnome in recovered squeeze system

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 Debia