problem with user log in

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Dec 22 11:38:44 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 12:27 +0100, Enrico Pisoni wrote:
> Trying the command
> 
> # tail -f /var/log/messages
> 
> I obtain these messages:
> - localhost gdm: session opened for user enrico
> - localhost gconfd: starting pid 6085 user 'enrico'
> - localhost gconfd: resource problem creating '/tmp/orbit-enrico'
> 
> Can you help me?

I saw the same thing while cloning a hard drive.  I hadn't set the
permissions correctly for my /tmp.  Notice the "t":

drwxrwxrwt  11 root root 4096 Dec 22 22:01 /tmp

It's possible that you've got the same problem.

Otherwise, if you've been changing user account details, you mightn't
still own the files you've previously created in /tmp and are trying to
use them again.  The solution to that would be to log out, and use the
root user to delete all the files in /tmp.  This is easiest done when
the GUI isn't running.

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