If WIPE_TMP="yes", kdm fails to load(start) because kdm needs /tmp/.ICE-unix. This directory should be excluded from deletion. Current content of /etc/init.d/bootmisc - section ${WIPE_TMP} == "yes" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- local exceptions=" '!' -name . -a '!' '(' -uid 0 -a '(' -path './lost+found/*' -o -path './quota.user/*' -o -path './aquota.user/*' -o -path './quota.group/*' -o -path './aquota.group/*' -o -path './.journal/*' ')' ')'" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Possible solution --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- local exceptions=" '!' -name . -a '!' '(' -uid 0 -a '(' -path './lost+found/*' -o -path './quota.user/*' -o -path './aquota.user/*' -o -path './quota.group/*' -o -path './aquota.group/*' -o -path './.journal/*' -o -path './.ICE-unix*' ')' ')'" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use kdm as windowmanager 2. /etc/conf.d/bootmisc set WIPE_TMP="yes" 3. Restart Actual Results: Kdm fails to load(start) Expected Results: Kdm should load(start) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-f i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /home /root /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/src/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org" LANG="de_AT.utf8" LC_ALL="de_AT.utf8" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/src/distfiles/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux dvd dvdread eds emboss encode fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jpeg kde kdexdeltas kerberos libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mmxext motif mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls nptl ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pam_console pdflib perl pic png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales visualization vorbis win32codecs xml2 xv xvid zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99679 ***