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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:42:32 +0000, Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >dave morgan wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:38:31 +0000, Neil Stone <Neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >> >>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>Hash: SHA1 >>> >>>dave morgan wrote: >>> >>>>hi, >>>> >>>> Having a spare partition on one of my drives I >>>>modified (in single user mode) /etc/fstab so it >>>>looked like this: >>>> >>>># /etc/fstab: static file system information. >>>># >>>># <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> >>>><pass> >>>>/dev/hde3 / ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 >>>>1 >>>>/dev/hde2 none swap sw,pri=5 0 >>>>0 >>>>/dev/hda3 none swap sw,pri=5 0 >>>>0 >>>>/dev/hda4 /mp3 ext2 defaults 0 >>>>2 >>>>#/dev/hda2 /tmp ext2 defaults 0 >>>>2 >>>>proc /proc proc defaults 0 >>>>0 >>>>/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 >>>>0 >>>>/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 >>>>0 >>>>/dev/hde1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 >>>>2 >>>> >>>> >>>>If I uncomment the line that mounts /tmp, then after rebooting and >>>>logging into KDE, it immediately dumps me back to the KDE login >>>>prompt again ! the partition is approx 20Gb, it used to >>>>be my old root on a previous installation. >>>> >>>>It took the reboot 15mins to get past the 'clearing /tmp' line >>>>the first time (wiping out my old system) ! >>>> >>>>Any ideas what causes KDE not to like having this separate /tmp >>>>partition, where to look for error messages ? >>>> >>>>best regards >>>>dave morgan >>>> >>> >>>Unsure, I had this problem with Gnome ages back... IF you copy the files >> >>>from the old /tmp to the new /tmp (ie a temporary mount of the >> >>>partitioned /tmp to /mnt then cp -R /tmp* /mnt) does that work ? >>> >>>Neil >>>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>>Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) >>> >>>iD8DBQE+JGc3ETbMU8Wu6mERAi5kAJ4rkvd/pp2K/AcL/FmYP2+nSNmDvACgg3so >>>I9t0HQF8F4t8wFsHsm1cfeU= >>>=YqEl >>>-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> >> Tried this, no difference at all ! >> any ideas where to look for error logs ? >> >> I am assuming having separate /tmp partition >> directly mounted is legal ! > >Yes, thats what i have now... The only solution i found was to re run >the configuration for X, I have no idea what caused the problem and why >clearing out my /tmp broke X but.. hey I found a work around ! > >Neil >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQE+JHY4ETbMU8Wu6mERAoB6AJ9OTYOgbmjO/e4HoHUn+NJ/vCQb6wCcCdRe >sAMVKlW9ju6sNWI07jqb7h8= >=b+if >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Neil, after some digging it could be a permissions problem: the normal /tmp is drwxrwxrwt my mounted attempt is drwxr-xr-t any ideas how to get mount permissions right ? best regards dave morgan -- http://www.eclipse.co.uk/morgad/index.html UKRA#1243 from address killfiled. use reply-to address for replies ! -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.