On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:57:22 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:58:22AM +0000, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: >> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:49:43 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:58:03AM +0000, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > was heard to say: >> >> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session startup ... >> >> Setting 1M through im-switch for locale=en_CA >> >> Start IM through /farhome/hendrik/.xinput.d/en_CA linked to >> >> /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/uim_toolbar. >> >> failed in listen(): Invalid argument >> >> mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied >> > >> > That almost sounds like you don't have write permission to $TMPDIR. >> > Do you have any configuration that changes the value of $TMPDIR? (if >> > you don't know about it you probably don't) What do the following >> > commands output? >> > >> > ls -dl /tmp >> > echo $TMPDIR > > [snip -- glad to hear it worked for you] > >> Thanks. How did you ever manage to think of this? > > The main thing for me was to ignore all those messages about suid GTK+ > programs; since the log continues past those messages, it's a good > (although not certain) bet that they're unrelated to the problem. Once > I read past them I saw the failures above (listen and mkdtemp), > which sound like a program trying to create a listen socket in /tmp and > failing. > > In particular, there's no other obvious reason for mkdtemp to fail > with "permission denied"; even "nobody" can write to /tmp on a default > Debian system. As Andrew said, that message is a pretty big clue, once > you've waded through all the other chatter in the log. > > Daniel
I'm trying to understand how these library calls are related to /tmp, since this is the kind of stuff I think I should know about. I looked for the specification of listen(), and found a man page with the synopsis int listen(int socket, int backlog); No reference to /tmp here. And for mkdtemp I find char *mkdtemp(char *template); Could it be the template starts with "/tmp/XXXXXX" or something like that? Or are temporary directory is alwayse put inside /tmp ? How is a temporary directory related to a socket? Or, where should I look to find the answers to this kind of question? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
