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Tjb0607

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Registered: 2009-06-16

Posts: 14

"call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?)" Can't login

I was browsing the web, and updating and stuff, and I minimized the browser to see how far it is updating. Then the window my mouse was over turned black. I moved my mouse around and real soon my desktop is just black and a cursor, so I reboot. When I attempt to login, it gives an error message "call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?)". I looked it up on google and it told me to login as root and move all the large files to /home/, but I can't... "Root logins are not allowed."
Any other solutions to this? Maybe making my partition bigger? Help me, This computer I'm using is crap.

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2009-10-12

Posts: 215

Re: "call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?)" Can't login

Can you please give us some more info?

What set-up are you using?

KDE?

If so I found a solution from:

http://www.kde-forum.org/artikel/17997/ … ation.html

fu-ga-zi

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Sunday, February 24th 2008, 8:32pm
Hi,

I had the same issue recently. Check in /var/log/kdm.log. I had an entry like
Error: Can not create directory "/var/tmp/kdecache-..."

/var/tmp was simply not there. I added it with
sudo mkdir /var/tmp
sudo chmod 777 /var/tmp
sudo chmod o+t /var/tmp (not sure if the last step is necessary, but /var/log has it as well)

After that it worked fine.

Regards

Peter

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