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Alexander Dalloz wrote: | 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 | | | I have only done a "yum update". The permissions of /tmp is equal to the above.
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