On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:50:41AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Why do I always get this message when I open The Gimp? > > Unable to open a test swap file. To avoid data loss please check the > location and permissions of the swap directory defined in your > Preferences (currently "/tmp/gimp-2.0").
what are the permissions on /tmp? > > There's no such directory. If I create it, then restart The Gimp, all is > well. But the next time I get the error all over again. "next time" as in... next reboot? probably you've got some incorrect perms on /tmp and since /tmp gets cleaned out automatically, the problem recurs. A
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