From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 12:35:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94D216A4CE for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 12:35:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rdsmtp.iglou.com (rdsmtp.iglou.com [192.107.41.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 701A343D64 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 12:35:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dlevitch@iglou.com) Received: from [192.107.41.39] (helo=iglou4.iglou.com) by rdsmtp.iglou.com with esmtp (8.12.5/8.12.5) id 1DWCuc-0003Z5-TE for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 08:35:34 -0400 Received: from [192.107.41.17] (helo=shell1) by iglou4.iglou.com with esmtp (8.12.5/8.12.5) id 1DWCuc-0003Yx-Cc for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 08:35:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 08:35:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Darrel X-X-Sender: dlevitch@shell1 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Originating-IP: 192.107.41.17 X-IgLou-Customer: verified Subject: Re: euid !=0,directory /tmp/.ICE-unix will not be created X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 12:35:35 -0000 >> I can startx with twm but not Gnome2-lite. The X server shuts down >> immediately 'Cannot establish any listening sockets' > > I installed gdm-2.6.0.9 remotely and expect that my X server problem has > disappeared. I missed the motd. Discovered that actually two files were missing: mkdir -m 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix mkdir -m 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix Darrel