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On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 20:25:26 +0000, dave morgan <morgad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:42:32 +0000, Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >wrote: > >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>dave morgan wrote: >>> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:38:31 +0000, Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>>Hash: SHA1 >>>> >>>>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 >>>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>>>Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) >>>> >>>>iD8DBQE+JGc3ETbMU8Wu6mERAi5kAJ4rkvd/pp2K/AcL/FmYP2+nSNmDvACgg3so >>>>I9t0HQF8F4t8wFsHsm1cfeU= >>>>=YqEl >>>>-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> >>> >>> Tried this, no difference at all ! >>> any ideas where to look for error logs ? >>> >>> I am assuming having separate /tmp partition >>> directly mounted is legal ! >> >>Yes, thats what i have now... The only solution i found was to re run >>the configuration for X, I have no idea what caused the problem and why >>clearing out my /tmp broke X but.. hey I found a work around ! >> >>Neil >>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) >> >>iD8DBQE+JHY4ETbMU8Wu6mERAoB6AJ9OTYOgbmjO/e4HoHUn+NJ/vCQb6wCcCdRe >>sAMVKlW9ju6sNWI07jqb7h8= >>=b+if >>-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >Neil, > >after some digging it could be a permissions problem: > >the normal /tmp is drwxrwxrwt >my mounted attempt is drwxr-xr-t > >any ideas how to get mount permissions right ? > [snip] turned out to be very simple I just did a #chmod 1777 /tmp once the partition was mounted and after the reboot every thing now works fine ! thanks to all for the help and inspiration best regards dave morgan -- http://www.eclipse.co.uk/morgad/index.html UKRA#1243 from address killfiled. use reply-to address for replies ! -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.