Unable to log in user

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Di, den 22.02.2005 schrieb Truls Gulbrandsen um 21:32:

> I have upgraded two of my systems, a TP30 and an IBM desktop, with the
> most resent udates.  After upgrading I am unable to log in as user.  The
> message I receive is: "GDM could not write to your authorization file.
> This could mean that you are out of disk space or that your home
> direcoty could not be opened for writing. In any case, it is not
> possible to log in. Please contact your system administrator".
> 
> I am able to log in as root.  I am quite sure that there is enough disk
> space so the problem is probably something else, but what?  Any
> suggestions that will assist.

> Truls

Any chance you changed the permissions or ownership of /tmp by accident?

$ ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt  31 root root 1688 22. Feb 20:29 /tmp

This is "chmod 1777" and a must.
Check too the permissions and ownership of your user's /home/<user>
directory.

Alexander


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