i installed ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop and partitioned the drive to have 2 partitions, one mounted on / the other mounted on /home, i made the / partition too small and so web browsing became an issue as the /tmp folder wasnt big enough, i shrank my home directory inflated my / directory and created a third partition on my hdd which is now mounted as /tmp, now when i boot, i can't graphically login with my user account, i get the error, $(HOME)/.dmrc file can't be written and that my home directory should only be accessible to my user account and no-one else, it says it should have 644 permissions, when i chmod my home directory /home/"user" to 644 (from my root account) it doesnt solve anything! please help

file locking issue?

Something has gone completely wrong (by resizing ??)
No directories can be 644 >> means no access ? (775 would do)
I would reinstall, other things can be wrong too.
Why a separate /tmp ??

Rgds

because when i install stuff on my / directory it would also take space from /tmp thus why i made a 2GB /tmp partition

i don't know what i did but it seems to be fine now, thanks

i had this same issue pop up again, i fixed it by changing the permissions of that file to 777 permissions from the root account and then made them 644 from my user account