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

Wed Apr 18 14:09:26 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 18/04/12 12:57 did gyre and gimble:
+> '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?
+
+Actually I don't think it's that in retrospect... There seems to be two
+seconds where X just sits and waits. Then it closes down normally.
+
+[    70.650] (**) Option "xkb_options" "compose:rwin"
+[    72.501] (II) evdev: Power Button: Close
+
+So the next step is to see where the rest of the errors come from.
+
+1. What display manager are you using? I'm guessing KDM. If so what does
+/var/log/kdm.log say?
+
+I suspect it has those dbus related errors... but it would be nice to
+confirm.
+
+I'm pretty sure it's KDM that failing and subsequently bringing X down
+with it. I'll see if I can reproduce with KDM here.
+
+Col
+
+
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