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On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 13:37:52 -0800 (PST), Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com>  
wrote:

>
> Gnome didn't start for me this morning after an xorg upgrade, I had
> the following in my .xsession-errors:

You should contact to the x11 team. I won't be surpised if you will get  
the same result if you start X without GNOME.

Cheers,
Mezz

> _IceTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.ICE-unix will not be  
> created.
> _IceTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.ICE-unix) failed, errno =  
> 2
> _IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local
>
> ** (gnome-session:1016): WARNING **: Cannot establish any listening  
> sockets
>
> I traced this to /tmp being cleared, and .ICE-unix being cleared with
> it.  Apparenty it has to be in .tmp just so:
>
>   drwxrwxrwt   2 root   wheel  512 Dec 23 12:51 .ICE-unix
>
> - Mike H.


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