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

lexual floss at lex.hider.name
Tue Oct 30 10:02:55 GMT 2007


David Faure wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Increased_Productivity_in_KDE4_with_Scripts/.bashrc




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