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

Mon Apr 16 15:57:17 CEST 2012

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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 This is just your media being out of date I think.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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