Re: gdm will not start after tar restore of disk

[Jules Colding <jules tdcadsl dk>]

Now it works again. A /tmp/.font-unix directory has appeared...


Sorry for the trouble, 
  jules


On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Jules Colding wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Actually it does run. I just started it manually but gdm will still not 
> start. I have this suspicion that some of the permission bits of /tmp or 
> /var could have been messed up by tar. ls -al in /tmp looks like this:
> 
> drwxrwxrwt    9 root     root         4096 Aug 11 08:47 .
> drwxr-xr-x   21 root     root         4096 Aug 11 08:41 ..
> -rw-------    1 jules    jules           4 Aug 11 08:42 .1643.3b888
> -rw-------    1 root     root            9 Aug 10 21:30 
> gdm-X-failed-jGR6p5
> -rw-------    1 root     root            9 Aug 10 17:33 
> gdm-X-failed-XPYI4H
> drwxrwxrwt    2 jules    jules        4096 Aug  9 16:36 .ICE-unix
> drwx------    2 root     root         4096 Jun 27 00:34 lost+found
> drwx------    2 jules    jules        4096 Aug  8 09:49 mcop-jules
> drwx------    2 jules    jules        4096 Aug  9 23:13 orbit-jules
> drwx------    2 louise   louise       4096 Jun 29 11:12 orbit-louise
> drwx------    2 jules    jules        4096 Aug  9 16:36 .sawfish-jules
> -rw-r--r--    1 jules    jules       27397 Jul 30 10:54 
> scrollkeeper-tempfile.0
> -rw-r--r--    1 jules    jules       27397 Aug  8 09:46 
> scrollkeeper-tempfile.1
> -rw-r--r--    1 jules    jules       27397 Aug  8 10:10 
> scrollkeeper-tempfile.2
> drwxrwxrwt    2 root     root         4096 Aug 11 08:46 .X11-unix
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1809 Aug 10 17:49 
> xf86config-2fUykC-4
> 
> 
> Anything missing ? 
> 
> BTW, this is a RH 7.3 box.
> 
> 
>