Problems starting Gnome as normal user - root okay

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 16:18 -0500, John Bull wrote:
> I am new to gnome.
> 
> I have just recently installed freebsd 7.0-BETA3 and thought I would give
> gnome a try. All gnome software was built from ports and a pkg_list is
> provided. I can start gnome if I login and start it with startx, but I can
> not print, download files from the web etc. If change my rc.config file
> (provided) to execute GDM my normal user fails, root is okay.
> 
> I believe this is all do to permissions but I am at a lost. I have search
> the web with no luck.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated and if any other information is
> required please let me know.

Check perms on /tmp and /var/tmp.  They should both be 1777.

Joe

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