xfs starts..and dies

[Mark Street]

At 10:22 PM 4/14/2002 -0700, Eric Eisenhart wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:01:23PM -0700, Joseph McCarty wrote:
> > Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>(1) run "df /tmp", do you have some space available?  xfs needs to make a
>directory for a pipe or something. (2) Look in the logs.  On my Debian box
>there's a bit of xfs stuff that ends up in /var/log/messages; it might be
>nice enough to tell you the problem.

Specifically /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100   gotta have the pipe!  Note the dir 
and files are owned by xfs which is why the sticky bit must be set on /tmp 
, note the sticky bit is also set on .font-unix

This one doesn't give you much information in logs 
unfortunately....  personal hair loss to prove it...