[Mageia-dev] Broken database problem solved but not all well

[Anne Wilson]

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On 16/04/12 14:27, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 16/04/12 13:28 did gyre and
> gimble:
>> On 16/04/12 13:15, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> On 16/04/12 09:21, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>>>> 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 15/04/12 18:39 did gyre and
>>>>  gimble:
>>>>> On 15/04/12 17:47, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Attempting to install sound-scripts separately asks
>>>>>> whether I want to use systemd-sysvinit or
>>>>>> sysvinit-legacy.  I've tried both, but both fail due to
>>>>>> missing sound-scripts.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Found the package listed by rpmfind.net - but the link
>>>>> there returns a 550 - Failed to change directory, so maybe
>>>>> something is broken and I will have to wait for it to be
>>>>> fixed.
>> 
>>>> This is just your media being out of date I think.
>> 
>>>> I pushed an update to sound-scripts-0.62-3.mga2.noarch.rpm 
>>>> yesterday. Just wait for the mirror to get itself up to
>>>> date.
>> 
>>> Thanks - that helped a lot.  I've now done the big update,
>>> choosing kernel-netbook (from memory) and rebooted.  All seemed
>>> to be going well until -
>> 
>>> 'systemctl status plymouth-quit-wait.service' for details ]See
>> 
>>> (screen message not garbled before that one) - and it has
>>> stopped. I thought someone said this was a known problem now
>>> fixed, so what do I do now?
>> 
>> A restart got it past that point.  Now it hangs after
>> 
>> Started LSB: Network monitoring daemon [OK]
> 
> 
> I strongly suspect it's not hanging. It's likely just stopped
> doing things. Flip over to tty2 and you should have a text login.
> 
>> From there, can you get the output of "systemctl status
>> prefdm.service"
> I suspect it has not even tried to start yet.
> 
Loaded, active (running) and set to kdm -nodaemon

> Do a "systemctl start prefdm.service" and you should have your
> normal logins.
> 
'Fraid not.  Reboot requires you to run the command again, so all you
have is the text login.  Then startx gives

"Could not start D-Bus.  Can you call qdbus?"

A forum thread suggested reinstalling xorg, so I did that - it called
up 10 packages, restarted urpmi then said it needed a further 471
packages.  That's running at the moment.

> I suspect strongly this is simply the legacy non-LSB initscripts
> issue I mentioned last week that is preventing the prefdm.service
> job from being executed on boot.
> 
>> Also, there is the message
>> 
>> Failed to start LSB: Update the Intel / AMD CPU microcode
>> [FAILED]
> 
> That's likely because you do not have the microcode itself
> installed. It's from a package in tainted so would not be installed
> by default.
> 
Sounds as though that's something I can ignore for now, then.

Anne
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