[arch-general] Can't create /tmp/.X11-unix and /tmp/.ICE-unix while booting

[Myra Nelson]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 14:17, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> Hi Myra,
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson at hughes.net> wrote:
>> Thanks, I'll take care of the changes to /tmp. My /tmp is on a
>> separate partition and I
>> seriously hope there are no file on my /tmp partition even remotely
>> close to 256GB.
>> The only reason I have a /tmp as large as I do is for extra space when compiling
>> something and a separte /tmp partition is to prevent any possible race
>> conditions
>> from outside influences.
>
> Using tmpfs should work well for you then (shout if it doesn't I'd be
> interested to know!).
>
> You could also apply the patch that I linked to, if you prefer to keep
> your current setup. Or you could wait for a new initscript release,
> which shouldn't be too far off :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom
>

Tom

Seems to work fine. I'll think I'l wait on the /var/run and
/var/run/lock until the changes
hit the repos. rather than change all the rc.d scripts.

Again, thanks for your help.

-- 
Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!