update to fedora 10

[Patrick Dupre]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Tim wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:21 +0000, Patrick Dupre wrote:
>> Hello, after I update fc7 to fedora 10, I cannot start an X session
>> (startx) when logged as a standard user !
>> The mouse pointer does not show up and the gnome session never starts.
>>
>> root user is OK.
>> I boot in test mode.
>
> What's the permissions of the /tmp directory?  I've seen that sort of
> thing in prior releases, because there was a problem there.
>
> [tim at suspishus ~]$ ls -dl /tmp
> drwxrwxrwt 53 root root 4096 2009-03-03 01:01 /tmp
>
>         ^ that "t" being crucial, as well as rwx for all the others.
>
drwxrwxrwt 59 root root 7168 2009-03-02 14:32 /tmp
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