[LUG] problem starting kde with separate /tmp partition

[dave morgan <morgad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

  Having a spare partition on one of my drives I
modified (in single user mode) /etc/fstab so it
looked like this:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system>	<mount point>	<type>	<options>		<dump>
<pass>
/dev/hde3	/		ext2	errors=remount-ro	0
1
/dev/hde2	none		swap	sw,pri=5		0
0
/dev/hda3	none		swap	sw,pri=5		0
0
/dev/hda4	/mp3		ext2	defaults		0
2
#/dev/hda2	/tmp		ext2	defaults		0
2
proc		/proc		proc	defaults		0
0
/dev/fd0	/floppy		auto	user,noauto		0
0
/dev/cdrom	/cdrom		iso9660	ro,user,noauto		0
0
/dev/hde1	/boot		ext2	defaults		0
2


If I uncomment the line that mounts /tmp, then after rebooting and
logging into KDE, it immediately dumps me back to the KDE login
prompt again ! the partition is approx 20Gb, it used to
be my old root on a previous installation.

It took the reboot 15mins to get past the 'clearing /tmp' line 
the first time (wiping out my old system) !

Any ideas what causes KDE not to like having this separate /tmp
partition, where to look for error messages ?

best regards
dave morgan

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