[nmglug] messed up permissions!

[Brian O'Keefe]

On Sunday 09 April 2006 2:28 pm, Gary Sandine wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply Gary. Here are the outputs from the commands:

"[Brian-OKeefes-Computer:/volumes/UNTITLED] brianoke% df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/disk0s5           40G   33G  7.0G  83% /
devfs                 1.0k  1.0k     0 100% /dev
fdesc                 1.0k  1.0k     0 100% /dev
<volfs>               512k  512k     0 100% /.vol
/dev/disk0s8           15G   11G  3.2G  78% /Volumes/UNTITLED"

And:

"lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     admin          12 Mar 20  2005 /tmp -> /private/tmp"

Untitled is the Linux Partition and there is still space. What does the second 
output tell us?
Thanks again.
> 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
>
> ?