Re: [LUG] problem starting kde with separate /tmp partition

[Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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dave morgan wrote:
> 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
Unsure, I had this problem with Gnome ages back... IF you copy the files 
from the old /tmp to the new /tmp (ie a temporary mount of the 
partitioned /tmp to /mnt then cp -R /tmp* /mnt) does that work ?

Neil
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