[ILUG] Could not read network connection list

[Lars Hecking]

Barry O'Donovan writes:
[...]
> >  There is no disk space problem, and I get the same error for the
> > failsafe session.
> 
> I had a similar problem once and traced it to my /tmp directory. I have 
> my /tmp on a separate partition and this partition became full because 
> an unrelated application was spitting out a massive log file to /tmp.
> 
> When I later tried to log into KDE it started logging in and then XFree 
> appeared to reset itself. The problem was that KDE stores some session 
> information in /tmp. Check that your
> 
> 1) /tmp is not full
> 2) is world writable

 /tmp is on a separate partition. It's about 3% full, and perms are 1777.

> >  The fact that it works for root does point to some sort of
> > permission problem, though, I just can't figure it out. I also
> > thought the fact that KDE only is installed, not Gnome, might be a
> > contributing factor?
> 
> Maybe an examination of your XFree log in /var/log/ might shed some 
> light?

 Nothing in there. Nothing in /var/log/messages either.

 I tried to go into single user mode, remove all X/KDE related stuff from
 /tmp, and reboot. The problem persists :-(

 My next idea is a complete reinstall, this time including Gnome ...
 I've already spent hours on this.