[plug] Deleted tmp, Broken X

[Mike Holland]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Steve Grasso wrote:

> 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

All sounds OK.

> (foolishly) blew the copy I made of the old /tmp away (don't ask me why).

Oops. You "deleted" some stuff in use. Not really deleted, but new
programs cant find it. A reboot should fix it. Or:

  /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs restart

> 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??

Hopefully, not much. Deleted sockets /tmp/.font-unix/fs-1  and
/tmp/.X11-unix/X0 .


Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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