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

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 30 October 2007, 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.

Do you have $KDEVARTMP set?
Then unset it.

It was in (very) old kde4 instructions, but there is no point in setting it at all.
Did you see a recommandation to set it anywhere? We need to fix that, if it's still mentionned somewhere.

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
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