Re: [gdm-list] /tmp and "GDM could not write to the authorization file"

[jdege <jdege jdege visi com>]

Ray Strode wrote:
> 
> Do you have selinux enabled?  maybe it's preventing gdm from writing
> to /tmp, or maybe /tmp isn't 1777 ?
> 

That was it.

Syslog shows:

Jan  8 19:50:16 jdege gdm[2947]: gdm_auth_user_add: Adding cookie for 500
Jan  8 19:50:16 jdege gdm[2947]: gdm_auth_user_add: Could not open cookie
file /tmp/.gdm5YVW4T
Jan  8 19:50:16 jdege gdm[2947]: gdm_slave_session_start: Auth not OK

When I restored the system, without restoring /tmp, I was leaving /tmp with
permissions set to 755.  When I restored a dump to /tmp, restore would set
the permissions to 1777.

Which was why GDM would work when I had restored /tmp, and would not when I
had not.  It wasn't a dependency on anything in /tmp, but simply that the
act of restoring /tmp set the proper permissions.

My faith in humanity is restored.

Thanks, all.
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