xfs starts..and dies

[Joseph McCarty]

The problem was lack of the sticky bit on /tmp.

Thanks, Mark!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Street" <jet at sonic.net>
To: <talk at nblug.org>; <talk at nblug.org>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: xfs starts..and dies


> At 10:22 PM 4/14/2002 -0700, Eric Eisenhart wrote:
>
> >On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:01:23PM -0700, Joseph McCarty wrote:
> > > Any ideas would be appreciated.
> >
> >(1) run "df /tmp", do you have some space available?  xfs needs to make a
> >directory for a pipe or something. (2) Look in the logs.  On my Debian
box
> >there's a bit of xfs stuff that ends up in /var/log/messages; it might be
> >nice enough to tell you the problem.
>
> Specifically /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100   gotta have the pipe!  Note the dir
> and files are owned by xfs which is why the sticky bit must be set on /tmp
> , note the sticky bit is also set on .font-unix
>
> This one doesn't give you much information in logs
> unfortunately....  personal hair loss to prove it...
>