[plug] Deleted tmp, Broken X

[Leon Blackwell]

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 (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??

It's possible xfs is annoyed at the permissions for the temporary socket
directories in /tmp -- make sure /tmp is completely empty before
starting X again (as root: rm -rf /tmp/* ) and make sure your new /tmp
has the correct permissions (should be 777+t).

Hopefully, that should do the trick  :)


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