[ale] RESOLVED: Reboot wedging problems after disk transplant

[John Mills]

Michael, ALErs-

[Having installed a rebuilt kernel and 'initrd' and failing to start X11's 
required /tmp/* files:]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:

> > On 25 Jun 2003, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > > You will certainly need to be in runlevel 1 to do this.
> > >
> > > rm /tmp
> > > mkdir /tmp
> > > sync
> > > sync
> > > shutdown -h now

> Hmm.  I just remembered.  When you create a tmp directory, remember to set 
> the permissions correctly (including the sticky bit) to rwxrwxrwt.  "chmod 
> 1777 /tmp" should do it.

Yes - permissions were the problem, not missing subdirectories. This 
solution seems to meet the 'necesssary and sufficient' criteria.

Thanks to all for the help. On to the next disaster!
 
 John Mills
 john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu

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