[Gllug] starting X

[Nix]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Mike Brodbelt uttered the following:
> When the font server starts up it creates a socket in /tmp, IIRR. This
> is probably failing as your root partition is full...

Unix-domain sockets don't require any space, just an inode, so I doubt
that's the problem; and in any case, xfs listens on a TCP/IP socket, not
a Unix-domain socket. Far more likely is that X itself creates a
lockfile in /tmp and a directory to *put* its Unix-domain socket, and
both of those require space. As a result, nothing could talk to X via
:0.0, so nothing --- not even the window manager --- would have been
likely to be able to start.

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