Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 18:42:05 -0600 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@northernbrewer.com Subject: Re: Weird /tmp issues Message-ID: <20001208184205.A405@northernbrewer.com> Resent-Message-ID: <20001209004554.7A44517434@kraeusen.nbrewer.com> In-Reply-To: <14897.26320.177634.47724@guru.mired.org>; from mwm@mired.org on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 04:55:12PM -0600 References: <95144528@toto.iv> <14897.23726.262612.101525@guru.mired.org> <20001208164327.A541@northernbrewer.com> <14897.26320.177634.47724@guru.mired.org>
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Mike Meyer (mwm@mired.org) wrote: > You should leave the thread on -questions so other can play. (Learning mutt, my .muttrc doesn't properly Cc the proper list yet..) > > Those sockets remain even after a reboot; even if I don'r run X. > > Is this normal? I would think if you shutdown X, it would remove > > all its lockfiles and sockets. It seems as if X requires those > > sockets to run, because if I move /tmp, my display and keyboard > > both fail until a reboot. > > I'd think that about X as well, but I'm not an X guru. If you're not > cleaning out /tmp at reboot, then you should: "shutdown -r"; when it > comes up, don't go multi-user, go single-user. Then mv /tmp to > /tmp.old (I'd suggest *deleting* the old /tmp) and create the new /tmp > appropriately. That got lost in here, but it's a symlink to another > fs, right? Yes. > > I searched deja.com regarding this issue, and found a message from > > someone who said "I like to move /tmp to a diferent filesystem before X > > has a chance to establish sockets there." > > Which is pretty much what I outlined above. Moving /tmp to /tmp.old > *should* make X recreate them when you start it, providing that you've > rebooted the system in between. > > If you've done that, then I'd seriously suggest removing the things. Done and done. I was a bit squeamish about removing /tmp.old, because it seems to contain essential files for the running of my X server. But I dumped / before proceding. The sockets were rm'd without any problem. And now /tmp is where I want it. Of course, X still doesn't start. I am still rather troubled that X requires certain files to be in /tmp in order to function properly. That seems very wrong. > > Christopher Farley > > Ok, I can't resist - I get asked what I working with Dana Carvey is > like regularly. Do you get asked what it's like being dead? Oh yes. All the time. At least, in my case, I've got the name of a *dead* SNL star. When he was alive people would constantly ask "Are you that guy in the van... down by THE RIVER?" Now most people any -- Christopher Farley Northern Brewer / 1150 Grand Avenue / St. Paul, MN 55105 www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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