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["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kai Ponte wrote:
> Boris Epstein wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Kai Ponte <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> > wrote:
> >   
> > > On my son's laptop, I went to reboot this morning. (I was trying to see
> > > why I couldn't connect via ssh.)  On boot, I got a message that /tmp was
> > > full and that the desktop manager would not start.
> > >
> > > What do I do? It won't let me login.
> > >
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> > >     
> > Boot the "failsafe" mode, or, failing that, boot from a CD/DVD and
> > select the "rescue" system. Then locate the /tmp partition and clean
> > it up.
> >
> > Boris.
> >   
>
> Okay, this seems to be a little more of an issue.  I deleted - as root -
> all files in /tmp /usr/tmp /var/tmp
>
>
> On boot, after selecting which user to login with, I get the message,
> "Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your
> installation."
>
> I had  a chat with my friend, google, and I found and followed
> directions here:
>
> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43335
>
> http://www.kde-forum.org/artikel/17997/call-to-lnusertemp-failed-temporary-directories-full-check-your-installation.html
>
> http://www.pclinuxos.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=23065.0;wap2
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/mandriva-30/call-to-lnusertemp-failed-temporary-directories-full.-check-your-installation-601207/
>
> So far, no luck.
>
> I can login as a user either on console or  another Window manager -
> IceWM but not GNOME or KDE.
>
> Ideas?

Rename the .kde and .kde4 dirs. in your /home/? dir. with something like
a .org extension. Then try to login. If it works, just setup KDE again,
and delete the 2 .kde.org dirs.

Fred

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