Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:16:07 -0800 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: "Eric W. Bates" <ericx@vineyard.net> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rc script for /tmp/.ICE-unix Message-ID: <1106363767.849.20.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <200501220303.j0M33A0G001650@phred.ericx.net> References: <200501220303.j0M33A0G001650@phred.ericx.net>
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On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 22:03 -0500, Eric W. Bates wrote: > FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 > xorg-libraries-6.8.1 > kdebase-3.3.2 > > I'm not entirely clear what is going on. And you folks probably have > it nailed already. However, when starting KDE (startx --> startkde), it > typically fails because somewhere in the start up procedure, the dir > '/tmp/.ICE-unix' is created mode 1777 by the user running startx. KDE > subsequently fails when ICE complains that the ownership of > '/tmp/.ICE-unix' should be 'root'. > > So I wrote a stupid little rc to create the dir at boot (since /tmp is > usually an mfs on my systems). Here it is: If you update to -stable and mergemaster, you should get a perfectly good rc script. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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