Joe, I think the only unusual thing is it had a power interruption when setting idle. Could the tmp directory be a sub under another directory and ls -l /tmp not have found it? Also, what is the command to make a directory? Bob >-----Original Message----- >From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joe >Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 7:07 PM >To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: gnome startup error > > >Bob Mclaughlin wrote: > >>Joe, >>I'm sure Jeremy will come back with the next step and >>reasons for reboot. Anyhow, the perms in / are all >>drwxr-xr-x except lost+found and root. I get - >No such file >>or directory for ls -l /tmp. What d'ya think? >> > >Ouch - without a /tmp directory you'll be hard >pressed to do just about anything meaningful. > >The present crisis may be averted by recreating >/tmp and giving it permissions 1777 - > >The big question is, how did it get nuked? and >whatever nuked /tmp, what else might it have >nuked? > >After recreating /tmp, try the command > >rpm -Va | tee rpmva.out > >and see what packages have damaged or >missing pieces.... > >If /tmp was the only problem, you should >be able to start X again. > >Joe > > > > >-- >Shrike-list mailing list >Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list >
