[Mageia-dev] The life After usrMove - KDE failure

Wed Aug 15 12:54:00 CEST 2012

'Twas brillig, and Johnny A. Solbu at 15/08/12 11:43 did gyre and gimble:
+> I finally managed to complete the usrmove conversion, and today KDE failed.
+> When login in it complaiins: "Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation". Same happens with startx.
+> When I manually launch /usr/bin/ksmserver in a terminal, it segfaults.
+> 
+> kdebase4-workspace is the newest package, which was installed after completing the usrmove.
+> 
+
+I wouldn't necessarily jump to the conclusion that this is *caused* by
+the usrmove. Once it's done, there is very little it does in and off
+itself to get in the way. All the paths that worked before still work.
+The only difference would be if some code does some strange things with
+checking folders in /bin /sbin, /lib* etc. which is very, very unlikely.
+
+A more likely fallout is the conversion of /var/run and /var/lock to
+symlinks to /run. This speeds up boot by a few seconds (I've seen
+mandriva-clean-var-run-lock.service taking >5s on some machines with
+slow disks) so it's a very useful change.
+
+That said there are still a few pagages that need fixing up for this:
+
+urpmf "/var/(run|lock)" | grep ":/var"
+
+About 87 packages in total. Perhaps one of them is to blame for your
+problem, but it doesn't look immediately obvious that any of those
+packages would cause any problems. Maybe policykit, but even then I'm
+not sure.
+
+Col
+
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