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Before you log into X, KDE, Gnome, whatever, while looking at the X
login screen, press CTRL-ALT-F[1-6] until you get a console login. Then
cd to your tmp directory and delete everything.=20
You might also want to go into the .kde dir in your home directory and
look for the=20
socket-"hostname" and tmp-"hostname"
and delete those as well. They are links to your tmp folders in the tmp
directory. That will force KDE to recreate its tmp directories.

nathan


On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 11:01, Michael Havens wrote:
> Are you saying that I should do it before it boots straight into X.. How =
do I prevent it from going into X?
> :-)Mike(-:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeremy C. Reed
> Sent: 1/8/2004 12:20:00 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: what does it mean
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> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Ed Skinner wrote:
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> > 6) Now, reboot the system. On my machine I use the following command:
> >      reboot
> > 7) Log-in normally and see if things are better.
> >
> >      The /tmp filesystem, in theory at least, "can be" discarded every =
time
> > the system is rebooted. In practice, however, this doesn't always happe=
n (but
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> I'd suggest instead of clearing tmp before rebooting that it is done righ=
t
> at reboot. Mike, have a look for cleantmp or related tools or just do you=
r
> own rm at boot time early (right after /tmp is available) in the boot
> order.
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> Cleaning tmp (even when logged out) may accidently delete some files in
> use by some tasks that are needed.
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>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
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