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

Mon Jul 23 13:15:10 CEST 2012

+
+Begin forwarded message:
+
+Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:21:46 +0100
+From: Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie>
+To: Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org>
+Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions
+
+
+'Twas brillig, and Shlomi Fish at 23/07/12 11:08 did gyre and gimble:
+> 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.
+
+OK, so whatever package ships /var/lock/console folder needs to be
+updated to ship a tmpfiles.d conf file to create that folder on boot.
+
+/var/lock should be a symlink to /run/lock and thus reside on tmpfs and
+thus the tmpfiles.d file should take care of things for you.
+
+Col
+
+
+
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