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

Wed Apr 18 13:57:18 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 18/04/12 12:32 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 17/04/12 21:22, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+>> As you do not have any legacy initscripts messing things up, I think
+>> the problem you now face is more simple. We need to find out exactly
+>> what's wrong.
+>>
+>>
+>> I guess the next stage is to: 1. Boot. 2. Assuming X does not start,
+>> switch to tty2 3. Get the output of: systemctl show prefdm.service 4.
+>> Assuming it's actually tried to start it (look for dates in the 
+>> ActiveEnterTimestamp variable near the top),
+> 
+> ActiveEnterTimestamp=Tues, 17 Apr 2012 14:47:50 +0100 (yes, it was on
+> all night :-) )
+> 
+> then look in
+>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
+>>
+> 
+>> If you happen to have a radeon, and it's using the vesa driver it
+>> could be the same problem Oliver is seeing: 
+>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5426
+>>
+> It's Intel.  It seems to be a bit unhappy that the Wacom tablet isn't
+> attached, but ISTR that the same thing happened when it was attached so
+> I doubt if that is relevant.  The logfile is attached.
+
+Yeah it seems to be related to the tablet... can you try just moving the
+xorg.conf out the way (mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.ignore)
+and reboot and see if it's happier?
+
+Col
+
+
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