Am Di, den 22.02.2005 schrieb Truls Gulbrandsen um 21:32: > I have upgraded two of my systems, a TP30 and an IBM desktop, with the > most resent udates. After upgrading I am unable to log in as user. The > message I receive is: "GDM could not write to your authorization file. > This could mean that you are out of disk space or that your home > direcoty could not be opened for writing. In any case, it is not > possible to log in. Please contact your system administrator". > > I am able to log in as root. I am quite sure that there is enough disk > space so the problem is probably something else, but what? Any > suggestions that will assist. > Truls Any chance you changed the permissions or ownership of /tmp by accident? $ ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 31 root root 1688 22. Feb 20:29 /tmp This is "chmod 1777" and a must. Check too the permissions and ownership of your user's /home/<user> directory. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | new address - new key: 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon kernel 2.6.10-1.14_FC2smp Serendipity 21:45:43 up 1 day, 8:54, load average: 0.42, 0.40, 0.36
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