I did a new installation on a friend's computer. All went well until I tried to copy over his old data and config files from the old hard drive. Since then I cannot log in as I end up getting the message: <quote> call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). check your installation. </quote>
I can login at the command line as root, and can login in as a second user I created. For now he is running as the second user without access to his old files. I have thought about this and googled a lot. I have tried/shall try all the reasonably likely applicable suggestions I found. I have checked the /tmp directories and they are certainly not full. I have not yet, but shall as soon as I get access again to his computer, check that there is a /root directory. But the permissions may be wrong in that his ID may have changed. It ought not to have done so, since the old installation was an updated Lenny, as is the present one, and he was in both cases the first user. Therefore the ID in both cases ought to be 1000. I am intending to delete his user, then create his user again. I could then do # chown -R user2 /old-HDD/home/user1 Then copy the data and configuration files into place. I should be grateful for suggestions and comments - preferably constructive ones. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201010271519.22125.lisi.re...@gmail.com
