[nmglug] messed up permissions!

[Gary Sandine]

Brian,

On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 14:21 -0600, Brian O'Keefe wrote:
> I've been trying to get help for my login problem. I posted to the Ubuntu 
> forums for Ubuntu/PPC at : 
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=156714
> 
> I apparently filled up my disc and got an error that either my disk was full 
> or my /home permissions were wrong. I chown permissions to me, which is what 
> they were anyway but I thought that it couldn't hurt. It did. Turns out my 
> disk was full and after removing some files I can login as root from failsafe 
> terminal but not as me. I get errors that my .dmrc permissions are wrong and 
> I have changed them endlessly, finally copying in a backup version that was 
> not a problem-same error. Itried logging into KDE as me  and get an error 
> that there is no write access to my home directory-permissions again. I 
> checked permissions with my backup and they are, as far as I can tell, 
> correct. 

By any chance is the partitioning containing /tmp full?  What does

df -h

say?  How about

ls -ld /tmp

?

-- 
Gary Sandine <gars at laclinux.com>