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

Mon Apr 16 17:58:10 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 16/04/12 14:57 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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 This is just your media being out of date I think.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
+
+OK, so I'm wrong :D
+
+>> 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.
+
+Hmm, that seems like something of a red herring.
+
+>> 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.
+
+OK, so this is incorrect, (prefdm *is* started, but perhaps some other
+jobs had to be cancelled instead.
+
+Can you do this:
+
+
+1. Add the following the to kernel command line when booting normally:
+"systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=kmsg"
+
+2. When you boot and it gets stuck, simply go to tty2 copy
+/var/log/dmesg to some file and then somehow give it to me :)
+
+Thanks.
+
+Col
+
+
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