[Gllug] starting X

[Xander D Harkness]

Every time in the last few months that X has failed to start for me, it 
has been a full /tmp every time.  Whether it is inodes or not, X does 
need space in /tmp

Cheers
Xander

Nix wrote:
> 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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