Black Screen After YUM Update Revisited:

[Mark Sargent]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> 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.
>
Hi All,

sorry, forgot to touch/create the file before writing to it..lol...yes, 
definitely the FC2 /tmp permissions..why..? something not right..? 
hacksaw, what were you looking for with the netstat..? Shall I go ahead 
and blow away those files now, guys..? Cheers.

Mark Sargent.