KDE threw an error message "call to lnusertemp failed {temporary directories full?} and crashed back to the login screen.
I immediately went to my terminal 1 (ctrl + Alt + F1), logged in as root and typed in
/dev/sda1 33G 5.3G 26G 18% /
/dev/sda2 19G 17G 2.9G 85% /media/hd
And I could see I had over 26 GB of free space left. I decided to check the permission of my home directory, just in case..
4 drwx--x--x 39 guest guest 4096 2008-10-03 00:35 anoj/
4 drwxr-xr-x 23 guest guest 4096 2008-10-03 00:16 guest -> anoj
Strangely, Kde seemed to have assigned ownership of my home to the guest user. I assigned the ownership back to my primary "anoj" user.
$ chown -R anoj anoj
Deleted the symbolic link for the "guest" home directory and created a new directory "guest"
$ mkdir guest
$ chown guest guest
And I tried logging in as "anoj" and Voila!, I was back in my familiar KDE environment.
3 comments:
how bout logging in as guest? did removing the sym link have any probs like not detecting of home directory for guest? just curious...
Hello there I got the same "call to lnusertemp failed" problem on my mandriva linux and was able to solved it after reading this article. Thanks Anoj! You're awesome :D
it helped me too, thank you :)
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