From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 9 10: 4: 0 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 9 10:03:58 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kraeusen.nbrewer.com (unknown [208.42.68.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E498537B400 for ; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:03:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2B1621742E; Sat, 9 Dec 2000 12:03:57 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 12:03:57 -0600 From: Christopher Farley To: Ryan Thompson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird /tmp issues Message-ID: <20001209120356.A5014@northernbrewer.com> References: <20001208184205.A405@northernbrewer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from ryan@sasknow.com on Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 08:51:21PM -0600 Sender: chris@nbrewer.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ryan Thompson (ryan@sasknow.com) wrote: > What errors are you receiving when you start X? You DID go into > single-user mode to move /tmp, right? I have never heard of so many > problems moving /tmp, and, frankly, there shouldn't be. I've done it > myself many a time on busy systems and X workstations.... And 90% of my > machines put /tmp on MFS anyway... so it's cleared on reboot. (Like that > ever happens :-) The other 10% symlink it to /var/tmp, and no machines > have ever had any problems, beyond the occasional large email attachment > filling a sometimes small MFS partition. :-) Okay. My /tmp issue was a red herring. Indeed I could not copy tmp to another filesystem because /tmp contained numerous unix domain sockets (possibly stale? I don't yet understand sockets) put there by XFree86. rm -R /tmp worked fine, however. /tmp now lives elsewhere. My X problems are apparently related to /tmp, but also to the fact I made world without specifying NO_X=true. (I was running XFree86-4) Reinstalling XFree86-4 fixed everything. My first "make world" has revealed many interesting FreeBSD discoveries. I'm not sure I have any additional functionality, but I have learned a *lot* more about FreeBSD. Thanks, freebsd-questions! -- 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