Re: cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade



On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:58:03AM +0000, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session startup ...
Setting 1M through im-switch for locale=en_CA
Start IM through /farhome/hendrik/.xinput.d/en_CA linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/uim_toolbar.
failed in listen(): INvalid argument
mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied

That almost sounds like you don't have write permission to $TMPDIR.
Do you have any configuration that changes the value of $TMPDIR? (if
you don't know about it you probably don't) What do the following
commands output?

ls -dl /tmp
echo $TMPDIR

Daniel


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