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fernux

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Registered: 2007-06-03

Posts: 31

[solved]can't start gnome as user

I can't start gnome as user  only as root.

error message: failed to create file /tmp/gconf-test-locking-file-kx6h6t:Permission denied (error=13)

I think this is an pacman error (permissions)

I made an clean install  because   last pacman -Syu  crash my os.
And i  get the error as above so i can't get it to work.

I also tried to run enlightment but several applications don't start.

How to solve this?

Solution was i wiki :chmod 1777 /tmp

Last edited by fernux (2008-02-11 20:39:41)

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: [solved]can't start gnome as user

error message: failed to create file /tmp/gconf-test-locking-file-kx6h6t:Permission denied (error=13)

this is the problem, it states that it can't create a file because of a lack of permissions to do so. Its trying to create the file in /tmp, so that tells us that /tmp directory has permissions that aren't correct or gnome would work. What u need to do is

ls -ld /tmp

and post the results here so someone can tell u how to put the correct permissions up.

edit: I see u found the answer yourself.

Last edited by jacko (2008-02-11 20:42:30)

fernux

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Registered: 2007-06-03

Posts: 31

Re: [solved]can't start gnome as user

thank for explanation anyway:D