"Bryan K. Walton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > I made a horrible mistake today. I accidentally deleted the /tmp > directory and its contents. I quickly realized my mistake. I created it > again (but wasn't able to replace the contents of it). Now, I can start X as > root, but I can't start X as any other user. I can't find any errors > anywhere. I have tried replacing and deleting the user .xsession files and > have tried startx, wdm, and xdm, all to no avail. Can anyone explain to me > what I blew away in the /tmp folder and how can I replace or fix it? (I also > made a new user and that user has the same problem as users that were on the > box before /tmp got blown away.) > Any help would be appreciated!!! > > Thanks, > Bryan Walton
As I understand it, /tmp/ must be owned by root.root, permissions 41777. An easy way to fix this is mc's chmod: tag everything but the first two fields (user and group ID on execution). -- Andre
