Bug#918574: FATAL gnome-shell loops on boot filling up syslog

[Jason Crain]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 01:56:05PM +0000, Robert Stone wrote:
> Cannot boot my laptop. gnome-shell fills up syslog with these messages.
> 
> There may be some typo's as I had to write this down and go to the
> local library.
> 
> 
> gnome-shell[1458]: failed to bind to /tmp/.X11-unix/X1024: No such
> file or directory
> 
> gnome-shell[1458]: failed to bind to /tmp/.X11-unix/X1025: No such
> file or directory

The first question that comes to my mind is whether there is something
that prevents access to /tmp. Whether the filesystem is mounted readonly
or perhaps something else is preventing write access to /tmp.