startkde - Error creating tmp directory on 1st kde4 login.

Dmitry Suzdalev dimsuz at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 09:44:09 GMT 2007


On Tuesday 30 October 2007 09:58:35 lexual wrote:
> Here's the error I get when trying to run kde4 for 1st time :
>
> Link points to "/tmp/MYUSERNAME-kde4/kde-MYUSERNAME"
> Creating link /home/MYUSERNAME/.kde4/cache-MYHOST.MYDOMAIN.
> Error: cannot create directory
> "/var/tmp/MYUSERNAME-kde4/kdecache-MYUSERNAME": No such file or directory
> startkde: Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check
> your installation.
>
> I need to manually run this command to be able to login.:
>
> mkdir /var/tmp/MYUSERNAME-kde4

Oh nice. I sometimes get this error and just can't find why.
I'd be glad if someone would tell me what it depends on. Can't guess :)

Solution is the same for me: create dir and (re-)startkde.

Cheers,
Dmitry.




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