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

Mon Jul 23 16:01:25 CEST 2012

Hi,
+
+Thanks for fw'ing. I just replied to the message Shlomi sent originally
+but as he'd CC'ed me it didn't go via the list and thus I replied
+accidentally in private to him.
+
+See below...
+
+'Twas brillig, and Shlomi Fish at 23/07/12 12:15 did gyre and gimble:
+>> 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.
+
+This issue should now be solved in the latest pam package.
+
+
+Cheers
+
+Col
+
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
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