X WIndows weirdness fixed

Paul King sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org
Mon Mar 10 23:14:41 UTC 2008


It was really dumb. Just did an "ls -l /" and found the permissions
on /tmp was set to 776. So I set it to 777, and my problems are over, X
is working normally.

The reason it was set that way was likely due to a flurry of other
changes I made to /. It looked as though an earlier package made
directories directly on / for some reason. I eliminated those
directories, and for whatever reason known only at the time, set the
permission to /tmp to 776 without setting it back. So, this time, it was
set back to 777, and everything is back to normal.

Paul King

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