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From: John Murphy <john253@crosswinds.net>
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Subject: Re: Weird /tmp issues
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 17:36:36 +0000
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Christopher Farley wrote:

>I have been trying to move /tmp off the / filesystem. This has been
>causing some weird X11 problems...
>
>For example if I=20
>
># mv /tmp /tmp.old
># mkdir tmp
># chmod 777 tmp
># reboot now
>
>I then have problems running startx! (The screen and keyboard shut
>down, forcing me to reboot the system from another system.)
>
>If I move the old tmp directory back, the problem goes away.
>
>I assumed /tmp was temporary, and that you should be able to boot with
>an empty /tmp no problem.
>
>Any ideas?

If the other answers didn't cure it, and stating the obvious:
make sure you're in / not /root.  (cd /)

John.


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