Can't log into my account anymore[solved]

BrummieJim · l33t Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 683

Hi,
I had an urgent deadline last night and had just run out of disk space, so in a fit of panic, su'ed and fired off a
rm -r /tmp

oops.

I'd meant to type:
rm -r /tmp/*

When I realised what I'd done I recreated the /tmp directory.

Now when I try to log into my user account it gives me a x error and logs me out.
~/.xsession-errors contains the following;
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "ja"
/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- gnome-session
mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied

I presume I've got to do something clever with the /tmp permissions, but don't want to start chmod'ing everything in sight and make the situation worse. Can anyone offer any advice. Apologise for the absence of thought that lead to this, but I was _very_ stressed.

Thank you!

chrbecke · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject:

My tmp perms are:

BrummieJim · l33t Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 683

Hi,
Cheers, I'm just wondering what the t at the end of the permissions list is?

BrummieJim · l33t Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 683

Right, set everything up as above, except with an x replacing the t and it's still failed. hmmm, stumped. checked the hard drive space on that partition and it's got 90% used, so space shouldn't be a problem

chrbecke · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:22 pm Post subject:

BrummieJim · l33t Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 683

I've set the sticky bit, but it still doesn't work.
It's now saying in ~/.xsession-errors
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/X11/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "ja"
/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
/etc/X11/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: /usr/bin/ssh-agent -- gnome-session
mkdtemp: private socket dir: No space left on device

but a df /dev/hda* gives this;
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 517056 288 516768 1% /dev
udev 517056 288 516768 1% /dev
udev 517056 288 516768 1% /dev
/dev/hda5 101086 12847 83020 14% /boot
/dev/hda6 19236308 18220236 38920 100% /
udev 517056 288 516768 1% /dev
/dev/hda8 41223308 34868768 4260472 90% /home

It's saying / is full, but I've not but anything on it recently and it should still have a gig on it looking at the /dev/hda6 blocks and the number used.

chrbecke · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:20 pm Post subject:

Trust your machine: If you get "No space left on device", and df shows 100% usage, your fs is full.

BTW, df shows 38920 1K-blocks available for /dev/hda6, which is ~39 MB.
If you don't want to twist your brain on the unit conversion, try "df -h", which gives you sizes in MB or GB.

You definitly have to clean up your system:

You can safely delete everything in /var/tmp/portage.
Check /var/log and delete old log files.
Delete everything from /usr/portage/distfiles.

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7310

BrummieJim · l33t Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 683

Ah ha! 6.7G kern.log file, ouch! I think I'll delete that!

BrummieJim · l33t Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 683

Actually it was that I'd set the sticky bit incorrectly.

chmod 1777 /tmp

saved the day and got it working!
Thanks