Hello sorry for my grammar this is not my mother language
My problem:
I started my PC today "normally" and suddenly a gray square appeared in the middle of my screen telling me that my session last 10 seg and that I have lo login as "fialsession". I tried that but I only can got in with the terminal.
It said: "Can not open or create *(null)*,this indicate it can be a problem with your configuration, error:"Failed to create file '/tmp/gconf-test-locking-file-RZWBKU' Permission denied"(errno=2)
I'm here sitting and waiting (and getting in panic).
Yesterday I installed Picasa 3 and stopped cherokee from starting with the system, else I realized that I couldn't find my .bashrc file
Im really a baby here, just borned into Debian a week ago.
I really appreciate if anyone can help me.
Thanks for reading.

Try (as root): mkdir /tmp && chmod 1777 /tmp

fIRST: THANK YOU VERY MUCH iT WORKED!

I have first to press Ctrl-Alt F6 to get into a tty (I guess that is that black window) login as root and then type what you wrote. At first it saiad that the /tmp already exists so I just typed:

$ chmod 1777 /tmp

then I press Ctrl-Alt F7 and that's it I was into my normal state.
What I wonder is what happened? See, I also like to know whys.
Anyway I just thanks you a lot.

Nice day.

Looks like the permissions on /tmp got corrupted somehow. They should be "drwxrwxrwt", or 1777. (An explanation of what that means is beyond the scope of my post)

Well, the explanation of getting, the /tmp permissions corrupted, is good enough for me... for now. I appreciate that.
I will investigate more and learn more how this happened (what I did to corrupt it)

About the "drwxrwxrwt" I know that it means that /tmp is a directory (d) in which the owner has the permission to Read, Write and eXecute (rwx), the groups, the same (rwx) and the same for all others (rwx)

But, what on earth means "t"? on drwxrwxrwxt

About the Octal Permission 1777:
I know that r=4 w=2 x=1 and sum=7 total permissions for owner,groups and others (777)

But, again, what on earth means "1"? on 1777

Well, don't mean to use more of your time.
Thanks for everything.

AFAIK, (I didn't check it in the docs ) the 't' is the sticky bit. It gives everyone rwx rights in /tmp, but as ordinary user you cannot remove other user's files.

BTW, you are never able to login as root in the Debian GUI (I guess it is Gnome in your case). Root logins are disabled by default, and for the reason that inside a GUI you don't want a program wich goes berserk let ruin your installation.

CTRL-ALT-F[1-6] was the right action indeed.

jlinkels

jlinkles,
thanks for your explanation about the "t" and for the tip about root.

Teenna