[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions

Mon Jul 23 12:08:49 CEST 2012

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:04:30 +0300
+Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
+> > 
+> > 
+> > 
+> > > BTW, I should note that right now after a few reboots, I am getting these
+> > > symtoms:
+> > > 
+> > > 1. I cannot run pm-suspend as user "shlomif", only as root.
+> > 
+> > This might be to do with how you login. If you don't use a regular
+> > display manager then there may be things that are not hooked up right.
+> > Not sure.
+> 
+> I am using kdm (cannot use "startx", though previously pm-suspend worked with
+> startx).
+> 
+
+Replying to myself, I'd like to note that I found a solution to problem #1 and
+to problem #3 in these posts:
+
+* https://listman.redhat.com/archives/pam-list/2001-December/msg00069.html
+
+* http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/pam-authentification-failed-cannot-start-x-server-117935/
+
+What I did was (as root):
+
+# mkdir -p /var/lock/console
+# touch /var/lock/console/shlomif (where "shlomif" is your user name).
+
+This fixed this problem. Since /var/lock was misplaced due to the /usr move
+transition, it was indeed caused by it.
+
+I'll see if it also fixed problem No. 2.
+
+Regards,
+
+	Shlomi Fish
+
+> > 
+> > > 2. On X, I am getting a frequent and random "The password you entered is
+> > > incorrect [CLOSE]" dialogues which I have to click through.
+> > 
+> > I've seen these dialogs too. I don't think this is anything to do with
+> > usrmove but rather some other update. Not tracked down what causes it tho'.
+> 
+> OK. I'll try to investigate.
+> 
+> > 
+> > > 3. Running startx as user "shlomif" gives me:
+> > > 
+> > > <<<
+> > > xauth:  file /home/shlomif/.serverauth.2718 does not exist
+> > > 
+> > > Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
+> > > Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
+> > >>>>
+> > 
+> > Dunno about that one. Could be related to new X stuff but again I don't
+> > *think* it's related to the usrmove (could be wrong of course)
+> 
+> Yes. Correlation does not imply causation.
+> 
+> Regards,
+> 
+> 	Shlomi Fish
+> 
+> 
+
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