Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full)?

[sκy_walκer]

Hi, I've installed BT3 according to Pureh@te tutorial (with some small modifications) but during logging this announcement appears:

bt login: root
password: toor
No directory, logging in with HOME=/

after that I wrote

# xconf
# fixvesa
# startx

and only thing I see is black screen with this announcement
img253.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lnusertempyy9.jpg

I've googled and find out it can be caused by some permissions, missing folders, wrong X configuration... I also tried a lot of commands but no tutorial worked out...
any other ideas? hlp

[larryhaja]

Hi, I've installed BT3 according to Pureh@te tutorial (with some small modifications) but during logging this announcement appears:

bt login: root
password: toor
No directory, logging in with HOME=/

This usually means that you don't have a "/root" directory and it is dumping you to the "/" directory after login. What exactly was the change(s) you made to the installation?

after that I wrote

# xconf
# fixvesa
# startx

and only thing I see is black screen with this announcement
img253.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lnusertempyy9.jpg

I've googled and find out it can be caused by some permissions, missing folders, wrong X configuration... I also tried a lot of commands but no tutorial worked out...
any other ideas? hlp

Not sure. But since you don't have a "/root" directory then this won't help you.

[Order Zero]

Wow I actually just had this same problem it was wierd it seemed to fix itself...I first installed it to my hdd thinking that was the problem (when I got the error I was booting from a CD) but it did the same thing so I tried flux it worked fine so I figured I could deal with that most of the things I liked were cli anyway. So I booted up today and thought just for the hell of it i'd try to startx and it loaded up nice and clean not sure what causes it..

[sκy_walκer]

This usually means that you don't have a "/root" directory and it is dumping you to the "/" directory after login. What exactly was the change(s) you made to the installation?
Not sure. But since you don't have a "/root" directory then this won't help you.

I used this command:

cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,pentest,usr,etc,lib,opt,sbin,var} /mnt/backtrack/

instead of

cp --preserve -R /{bin,dev,home,pentest,root,usr,etc,lib,opt,sbin,va r} /mnt/backtrack/

now I realize this doesn't copy necessary directories such 'home' and 'root' (I'm a newb so don't understand every line ... but I try :P )

Wow I actually just had this same problem it was wierd it seemed to fix itself...I first installed it to my hdd thinking that was the problem (when I got the error I was booting from a CD) but it did the same thing so I tried flux it worked fine so I figured I could deal with that most of the things I liked were cli anyway. So I booted up today and thought just for the hell of it i'd try to startx and it loaded up nice and clean not sure what causes it..

I found your thread but seems like your problem is caused by wrong drivers to your external screen, anyway I tried couple of suggestions from your thread but none worked out... :/
so, I'm going now to reinstall BT3 and copy necessary directories xD

[sκy_walκer]

Finally I got my BT3 working, after complete reinstallation a small problem with 'kernel panic' appeard, I solved this with changing a line in lilo.conf

root = /dev/sdaX

Thank you larryhaja for helpful hint

[larryhaja]

Glad it worked. In the case of BT3, the /home directory is not really needed. BT3 is made to run as root and all the important configuration files are in the /root directory at boot. The /home directory can be added later if extra users are added.