[Mageia-dev] ANN: For the brave. systemd v185 in cauldron updates_testing

Thu Jun 28 10:54:45 CEST 2012

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:21:10AM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Olav Vitters at 27/06/12 22:21 did gyre and gimble:
+> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 09:31:44PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
+> >> Never really tried making a plot quickly after booting, but 8min should
+> >> be enough to have every service started.
+> > 
+> > Due to mysqld/mariadb not starting
+> > 
+> > Loads of repeating messages in the logs:
+> > Jun 27 21:56:03 bkor systemd[1]: mysqld.service holdoff time over,
+> > scheduling restart.
+> > Jun 27 21:56:03 bkor systemd[1]: Job pending for unit, delaying
+> > automatic restart.
+> 
+> Hmm, interesting. MySQL starts fine here.
+
+Table corruption :P
+
+| InnoDB: The log sequence number in ibdata files does not match
+| InnoDB: the log sequence number in the ib_logfiles!
+| 120627 21:22:06  InnoDB: Database was not shut down normally!
+| InnoDB: Starting crash recovery.
+| InnoDB: Reading tablespace information from the .ibd files...
+| InnoDB: Restoring possible half-written data pages from the doublewrite
+| InnoDB: buffer...
+| 120627 21:22:06  InnoDB: Assertion failure in thread 140513125668672 in
+| file fsp0fsp.c line 2874
+| InnoDB: Failing assertion: space != 0
+
+A bit strange as I always reboot cleanly, but in any case not related to
+systemd. Could be that I never noticed this failing (haven't used the
+databases in many months).
+
+> > I uninstalled mariadb and it went through. Before that tried a chkconfig
+> > mysqld off, but that didn't seem to help.
+> 
+> MySQL has a native systemd unit so you should have done "systemctl
+> disable mysqld.service". Once a native unit exists the enabled/disabled
+> status of the sysvinit script is irrelevant.
+
+chkconfig forwards things right? I'm still using chkconfig + service.
+
+> As a side note, how was your keyboard layout and do you have a
+> /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf file?
+
+Don't have /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf. My keyboard layout
+is&was standard (US). I have capslock as compose key in xorg, but didn't
+check if that is still working.
+
+> Just FYI, having spoken to Lennart, the plan is to write a patch for
+> systemd-localed that will allow us to force a sync of locale settings
+> (and thus write the above Xorg snippet) to ensure everyone gets the
+> right keymapping. We will trigger this functionality on upgrade. This is
+> currently the only thing holding me back from pushing this. I'll try and
+> find time to write such a patch at the weekend.
+
+Nice! Because then I can finish the GNOME upgrade :-)
+(most pending stuff is either waiting on systemd, or new
+evolution-data-server.. and cannot upgrade evolution-data-server without
+upgrading the stuff which wants a newer systemd)
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+