Grip

[David A. Bandel]

On 19 Mar 2002 22:16:09 -0800
begin  Iraj Medifar <irajmedifar at peoplepc.com> spewed forth:

[snip]
> > 
> Thanks. I did and here's what I got:
> 
> esd: Failed to fix mode of /tmp/.esd to 1777.
> Try -trust to force esd to start.
> esd: Esound daemon unable to create unix domain socket:
> /tmp/.esd/socket
> The socket is not accessible by esd.
> Exiting ...
> 
> Well, is there a plain newbie translation of this?

Must be _lots_ of stuff on your system broken.  Users can't log in, etc.

Do this as root:
chmod 1777 /tmp

then try again and post any errors.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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