Unable to log in user

[Truls Gulbrandsen]

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Alexander Dalloz wrote:
| Am Di, den 22.02.2005 schrieb Truls Gulbrandsen um 21:32:
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|>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.
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|>Truls
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| Any chance you changed the permissions or ownership of /tmp by accident?
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| $ ls -ld /tmp
| drwxrwxrwt  31 root root 1688 22. Feb 20:29 /tmp
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| 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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I have only done a "yum update".  The permissions of /tmp is equal to
the above.

Truls
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