[Solved]Resource problem creating '/tmp/orbit-noise'

osc~ · 2007-12-20 17:52:26

./Shell/__init__.py:153: GtkDeprecationWarning: gtk.threads_init is deprecated, use gtk.gdk.threads_init instead
  gtk.threads_init()

** ERROR **: Resource problem creating '/tmp/orbit-noise'
aborting...

lately i have been getting this problem.
as well as when i try to start firefox or even gnome.
it says some problem with gconf.
as well as with orbit.
weird

Last edited by osc~ (2007-12-26 16:19:58)

benmorgan · 2007-12-20 19:47:21

Here's for a guess.
Maybe this is related: What are the permissions of /tmp

ls -l / | grep tmp

osc~ · 2007-12-21 21:17:28

here it goes
is there anything wrong

ls -l / | grep tmp
drwsrwxrwx   6 root root  4096 2007-12-21 19:15 tmp

instead of root should it be user.

Last edited by osc~ (2007-12-22 18:19:10)

benmorgan · 2007-12-22 22:35:01

Ok, the permissions of the /tmp directory are wrong

They should still be root root, but the last x should be t;
which allows every user to write to the folder, but not delete
anything but what they themselves created

You have:

drwsrwxrwx

It should be:

drwxrwxrwt

Run the commands as root (or use sudo)

sudo chmod -s /tmp
sudo chmod +t /tmp

Hope that works for you!
Write back here if it doesn't work!

osc~ · 2007-12-23 05:21:26

i did as you wrote
but still it doesnt work.

firefox
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details -  2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-noise/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)

** ERROR **: Resource problem creating '/tmp/orbit-noise'
aborting...
/opt/mozilla/lib/firefox-2.0.0.11/run-mozilla.sh: line 131:  7824 Aborted                 "$prog" ${1+"$@"}

i get this error everywhere.
thanks
cheers!

Last edited by osc~ (2007-12-23 05:21:56)

benmorgan · 2007-12-23 13:57:39

What are the current contents of /tmp?
Is what it is trying to create already there?
Have you tried creating a file there yourself: (that is, as a normal user)

cd /tmp
touch file1
rm file1

kind of thing...

edit: You said 'lately' -- therefore it was working before, but then something
happened and it started giving you error messages. Might you have upgraded
anything that caused this problem?

Last edited by benmorgan (2007-12-23 14:37:25)

osc~ · 2007-12-23 18:37:20

as normal user i managed to add a file with touch in the /tmp folder.
here is the content in the /tmp

ls
6651IW  gconfd-root  orbit-root

something must have happended when i installed all the programs in the [pro audio] repository.
after that gnome wouldnt start nor any program without sudo.

thanks for the help

Last edited by osc~ (2007-12-23 21:41:54)

benmorgan · 2007-12-24 10:23:07

Right, I'm a person of trial and error, so what I'd try next is
manually creating gconfd-noise and orbit-noise. Don't do this
though while you are in X though

cd /tmp
sudo -s
mv gconfd-root gconfd-noise
mv orbit-root orbit-noise
chown -R noise:users gconfd-noise orbit-noise
exit

You could try it...
I'm assuming that the group you (noise) are in is users.

It all doesn't really make sense to me why it's not working...
It looks like it has to do with permissions and stuff, but as you
said, it's not working!

osc~ · 2007-12-25 02:06:09

greetings
well i am still confused. i did it all. but somehow new problems seem to arise. among the latest is that i am not able to access X. after i type startx, a black screen appears and the mouse pointer is an "X". yet nothing appears on the screen. i tried switching other wm in .xinitrc but nothing changes.
cheers
happy holidays

benmorgan · 2007-12-25 20:03:19

Ouch! I'm sorry for that!
Here's something for a try...
There are a lot of things that you could do to try to figure out where the problem is.
Choose whichever one appeals to you
What happens if you use root again?
What happens if you create a new user account and try to start X and use programs?
What are the error messages of X? (consider the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log and consider using the site http://cl1p.net/ for posting that... (as Xorg.0.log is ~ 70 KB)

As I said in the last post, I'm a person of trial and error. I'm no expert, but what ideas and other help I can give you, I am glad to give you. Just letting you know

osc~ · 2007-12-26 04:24:29

hello
i did
rm -rf $HOME/.*
and now everything started working again.
unfortunately all my configurations are lost
but on the bright side, i can do it all again (although it will take awhile)
i cant tell what caused the problem. but thanks alot for the help.
cheers

benmorgan · 2007-12-26 12:33:46

Ahhh!! I'm sorry for that. It looks like the problem probably was in .gconf and .gconfd -- I'm sorry your configuration was lost though. (Next time, use a more safe approach: move them to a different folder; mv ~/.* temp/ kinda thing.) Well, cheers glad your problem is fixed.

usemoslinux · 2012-01-24 16:04:53

Assuming, you have the right permissions to read&write in /tmp... maybe this might help.
In my case, i got that same error when I was out of space in my partition.
So, an easy way to solve this issue is to clean pacman's cache:
pacman -Scc
Hope that helps! Pablo.

Arch Linux

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