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HI,

While starting gnome, gnome hangs and in console i am getting the error aborting " ORBit-ERROR**:wrong permissions for /tmp/orbit-root"

I given 777 to tmp folder and sub folder.

Waiting for valuable feed back.

Thanks in advance
- Bache

See if this helps: Gnome Archive list

Note the first fix:
> > I try to install the gnomemeeting slackware package and i got this :
> > ORBit-ERROR **: Wrong permissions for /tmp/orbit-root
>
> You were probably running (installing) in a 'sudo' or 'su' session?
>
> Try manually changing the permissions on that file, and install again.
> Orbit checks owners (even when root!) and permissions.
>
> Or you could run from a native root-shell.