The Utopia Oracle has pondered Joey Hess's question deeply.
Your question was:
> "exclusive open for tmp_name failed in m4_defs: Permission denied"
>
> If I run startx as root, I don't get the error, and fvwm comes up fine.
>
> Anyone know what could be causing this error?
Check the permissions on your /tmp/ directory. Do you have write
permission?
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Received on Tue Jul 23 1996 - 16:09:29 BST