From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 12 22:31: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3312737B400 for ; Sun, 12 May 2002 22:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sdn-ar-003dcwashp247.dialsprint.net ([206.133.15.137] helo=moo.holy.cow) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 1778QB-0005gF-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 May 2002 22:30:56 -0700 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 82B9150B8D; Mon, 13 May 2002 01:33:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 01:33:03 -0400 From: parv To: f-q Subject: X complains "Couldn't load XKB..." if can't modify /var/tmp Message-ID: <20020513053302.GA379@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: f-q Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X would produce error message... Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap ...(and, xset would dump core w/ segfault error) if permissions of /var/tmp are, in one case, 0755. the "couldn't load XKB..." error goes away (and xset works normally) if permissions of /var/tmp are set to 1777. does X need to create a temporary file in /var/tmp before starting (as there was no X related file in /var/tmp but that directory's modified time was same as that of /var/log/XFree86.0.log)? - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message