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

Wed Apr 18 14:28:13 CEST 2012

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+On 18/04/12 12:57, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> '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?
+> 
+:-(  It stops at exactly the same place, "Started LSB: Network
+monitoring daemon [OK]"
+
+The tablet is a non-urgent issue - I'll leave it off for now.  When we
+have solved this puzzle I will try the tablet later, but no hurry.
+
+Anne
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