[lug] X FontPaths

[rm at mamma.varadinet.de]

On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 01:40:02AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 01:00:39PM -0700, John Starkey wrote:
> 
> I doubt it's this, but I was getting this EXACT error message from a RH
> 6.2 machine that had /tmp deleted by accident.
> 
> The users of the system said that they'd done nothing to it other than
> run the Netscape 6 installer.
> 
> There was a mysterious /temp directory in / on it also.
> 
> Anyway, what was going on was that without /tmp, X cannot write the X0
> device that various programs want to use to communicate to the X server.
> 
> (And then I recreated /tmp with improper permissions... so it STILL
> didn't work... hahaha... then I remembered what I'd done wrong...)
> 
> Make sure non-root users can write to /tmp.

.... and the magic 't'  bit is set! Or you have a security problem ;-)

 Ralf