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wolfdogg

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From: Portland, OR, USA

Registered: 2011-05-21

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kdm call to inusertemp failed - related to vfat partition type

i received the message

kdm call to inusertemp failed (temp directories full?) check your installation

upon a fresh arch/kdm installation after trying to change permissions to the /tmp directory

# chmod -R 1777 /tmp

i noticed that one file was still 700, it was the file that contained the error message that led to the problem.  the file is
/tmp/xerr-[username]-:0
this file clearly states that its unable to create home/[username]/.kde4 among other directories, permission denied. 
then i check permissions on my user directory, and it was owned by user:group root:root.  so somehow when the directory it received root permissions to the directory.

upon further inspection, i am realizing, since this is a vfat partition type, its related to the way vfat partitions mount i guess. Can somebody tell me what i might need to do so that when i create the next user the permissions are set correctly in the first place?

when trying to change the permissions

# chown -R [username]:users /home/[username] 

results in an error

chown: changing ownership of ./home/wolfdogg/.bash_profile.: Operation Not permitted

i was looking into this post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 58#p562358 and it looks like it might be part of the solution, can anybody help me make sense out of this?  do i need to mount the vfat partition differently in order for it to work properly as a home directory?   Is there another partition type i can use to share it with windows 7?  i wanted to set it as an ntfs partition type initially but i didnt see that as an option in either gparted, or fdisk, and couldnt figure any other way than making it a vfat.

Last edited by wolfdogg (2012-07-14 19:32:02)

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