For the OS homework, I compiled a kernel and installed it.
1. On booting into an old kernel (not my newly compiled one), the login window (partly) showed up. And after inputting the password, what I got was a blank screen..
The problem here is that the root partition became full after installing the kernel.
So I tried to remove something. I deleted the /tmp directory.
2. Then on next boot, I got a popup window, "There is a problem with the configuration server. (/usr/libexec/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)
The problem here is that, a new /tmp has been automatically created, which has the default permission (rwxr-xr-x). Changing it to 777 will get the work done :) Cheers.
Friday, December 26, 2008
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3 comments:
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
You just got my work machine going again.
Great !
Thanks for the post, it was of real help.
Thank you so much. It really helped me. Accidently I have deleted /tmp directory and created it with 775 permissions. On system reboot, it poped this error message.Giving 777 permissions on /tmp solved this problem .
Regards,
Naresh Kumar. Y
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