Black Screen After YUM Update Revisited:

[Paul Howarth]

Mark Sargent wrote:
> Hacksaw wrote:
> 
>> Maybe before you blow away these files, we should look at their 
>> permissions?
>>
>> cd /tmp; ls -l .font* .X*
>>  
>>
> Hi All,
> 
> okay, the netsat gave nothing. The permissions are as follows,
> 
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 51 Feb 15 01:23 .fonts.cache-1
> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 2 00:26 .Xauthority
> -rw------- 1 root root 1126 Aug 24 1995 .Xresources

Is this definitely the FC2 /tmp and not the knoppix /tmp?

What's the permissions on the FC2 /tmp itself?

$ ls -ld /tmp

> P.S. When doing the cd /tmp; ls -l .font* .X* I tried with > filepath at 
> the end, but kept getting a dir doesn't exist message...how can I do 
> that so that it writes to a file, so I can open/view/copy/paste from 
> within Knoppix3.7.? Cheers.

That should have worked; what was the filepath?

Paul.