On Sat, 08 Oct 2011 12:58:29 -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > On Saturday 08 October 2011 11:12:44 am m...@neidorff.com wrote: >> Hi, >> >> This morning synaptic reported some 32 packages to update. So I >> updated the packages. After the update I can no longer login (KDE) as >> myself. I can login as myself in a terminal login. I can also login >> as root under KDE (I understand the dangers). >> >> Now I would like to undo the changes that were made by synaptic so that >> I can get back to a fully usable system. How do I find the changed >> packages and undo the changes? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mark > > It is a permission problem. > > #chmod 777 /var/tmp > > solves the problem. (whew!)
Wrong. The sticky bit should be set. > (and, yes it was very important!) Only to you. Please don't do that - it is considered discourteous. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/j6q0ln$pjv$1...@dough.gmane.org
