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Bug 158284 - graciously handle incorrect /tmp permissions
graciously handle incorrect /tmp permissions
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: general
Classification: Other
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Unknown User
Unknown User
Depends on: 135787 144473
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-11-14 18:10 UTC by Federico Galassi
Modified: 2018-08-22 19:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Federico Galassi 2004-11-14 18:10:34 UTC 
After having messed with /tmp permission, startx leads to a black screen with 
moveable mouse pointer (a X icon). Whatever i do gets no reactions from GNOME.
Starting X as root would still give me a working gnome-session, so i made some
tweaking and eventually traced the problem to my user missing +w on /tmp.
I lost 2 hours to sort this out, so i think GNOME should report a clear error.
I just got gnome 2.8, but i believe older versions are affected as well.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. # chown root: /tmp && chmod 0700 /tmp
2. $ startx

Actual Results:  
black screen

Expected Results:  
see my gnome desktop
Comment 1 Olav Vitters 2004-12-29 03:29:20 UTC 
I'm changing this bug into a tracker bug. The permissions should be checked in
two places: GDM (login screen) and gnome-session (the first program that starts
when you start GNOME).
Both programs already have bugs for this. Making those block this one.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2018-08-22 19:14:51 UTC 
all dependency tickets have been closed