[plug] Deleted tmp, Broken X

[Beau Kuiper]

Hmmm,

I don't know of any programs that are dependant on /tmp. Programs should be
fine after you restart them.

Did you try restarting xfs. If it still doesn't work and no messages occur, see
if there is a message in the syslog.

If you still have no luck, do an strace of xfs (eg strace /usr/X11/bin/xfs) and
see if you can see where it is failing. (or post me a copy of the output, so I
can decode it)

Hope this helps
Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Steve Grasso wrote:
> Hi Knowledgable Ones,
> 
> Hmmm...Having run short of disk space, I decided to live dangerously and
> shifted /tmp to another partition, sym linking to it from / (Created the
> source tmp dir with perms of 777 and sticky bit set). I then
> (foolishly) blew the copy I made of the old /tmp away (don't ask me why).
> Now X fails with an errno 111, having failed to set default font path
> 'unix/:-1' and thus not able to open the default font.
> 
> X appears to be gagging on the absence of xfs, which starts correctly at
> bootup, but disappears sometime afterwards (well, I don't see it in ps).
> 
> What on earth have I broken??
> 
> Steve (the X'less)