Hello all you Debian fanatics, and all those others who just love Debian,

Just when I thought: Now its okay! Sarge surprised me with the following message:

Xsession: warning: unable to write to /tmp; X session may exit with an error

And now I am not able to log in anymore.....

Is there anybody out there who knows what to be done?

Check that the permissions for the ~/.Xauthority file are sane. It should be owned by your user. If you have run some stuff as root in an inappropriate manner through your own user acct, root may have gotten ownership of that file.

I did this to ensure my ownership:

#export XAUTHORITY=/home/my_user_name/.Xauthority


But after log out and in, nothing changed.
rebooting: No change...

M9.

You can check the permissions by running: This should show you the file permissions plus its owner and group.

Well, just decided to repartition and reinstall again,
Frugal install of DSJ needed more space than 50MB....

Thanks for the advice anyway.
Something else bothers me:
I had installed Xfce, and I liked this desktop.
But I could not use synaptic, or many other programms that I had installed.
So I told my /.xsession to exec icewm, and I thought: if I mark it out, xterm would start-up xfce again. But that was not so. I was not able to find the start-up name of the desktop again. So I went on with icewm. Everything worked just fine, when the subject of this thread happened.

Last month I bought Linux cookbook 2nd edition.
Followed the recipes, might have done something wrong though, many things did not work.

I am used to be able to switch filemanagers with some kind of logon-manager. But I was not able to find one for Sarge. And I donot want space and mem eaters as G & K. on this tiny laptop.
Maybe you know how to switch filemanagers.
I know that i can change from within icewm, but xfce was not listed.

I found a windowmanager selector: wmanager.

Everything worked out fine, and Debian 'purrs' my CPU, like never before...