Everything messed up - need help?

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At one point everything was working OK. And then it stoped - litteraly.

I tried to open up a file that I just downloaded with Opera (it's an .xls so oocalc2 should have been started).

It didn't start. Then I closed up Opera and tried to open terminal (Eterm/Xterm) and it wouldn't start.

Tougth that restart would solve the problems ... but qingy (login manager) didn't started and I ended up with colsole login (I'm writing this from 'links -g').

During boot it gives an error like:
qingy: load_settings: fatal error: cannot access temp files directory (/var/lib/mics) no such file or directory.

Inside /var/lib/ there is only init.d directory.

It also appers that /tmp and /var/tmp (which I tought are temp directories) were missing.

How do I figure out what happend? Can I fix it?

I recreated /tmp and /var/tmp directories and set premissions with chmod 1777 (is that ok?)

But of course it doesnt work ...

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So I mkdir /var/lib/misc and it booted up login manager - fluxbox - and now Opera.

So what the frack is going on?