On Mon, Oct 28, 2024 at 10:18:49PM +0100, Daniel Abrecht via Dng wrote:
> Am 2024-10-28 20:51, schrieb Haines Brown via Dng:
> > ownership and permistions for /tmp seem OK likewise for /var/tmp
>
> Are you sure? Did you check *after* mounting it that it's permissions are
> 1777? (The initial 1 is the sticky bit, it can easily get lost when changing
> permission / ownership of a folder).
>
> By the way, it should usually be safe to delete the contents of /tmp and
> /var/tmp. /tmp should be clean after a reboot, /var/tmp should keep it's
> contents, but it doesn't really matter if their contents stay there or not.
> I use a giant tmpfs for /tmp, combined with a giant swap on my ssd.

Thanks, Daniel. That was the problem. Breaking /tmp out now is solved.


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Haines Brown