Package: xfree86-common
Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12
Severity: normal
The following section of /etc/X11/Xsession tries to warn about problems
with /tmp:
# Attempt to create a file of non-zero length in /tmp; a full filesystem can
# cause mysterious X session failures. We do not use touch, :, or test -w
# because they won't actually create a file with contents. We also let standard
# error from tempfile and echo go to the error file to aid the user in
# determining what went wrong.
WRITE_TEST=$(tempfile)
if ! echo "*" >>"$WRITE_TEST"; then
message "warning: unable to write to ${WRITE_TEST%/*}; X session may exit" \
"with an error"
fi
rm -f "$WRITE_TEST"
I recently found out, by having incorrect permissions on /tmp, that in
fact the only error that gets emtted is "open: Permission Denied" in
.xsession-errors. No file name, etc. The error message in the script
never gets displayed or recorded anywhere as far as I can tell.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages xfree86-common depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.46 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.13.1 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
-- debconf information:
xfree86-common/experimental_packages:
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