[Mageia-dev] Utter frustration

Mon Nov 26 14:33:32 CET 2012

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+On 25/11/12 17:22, Liam R E Quin wrote:
+> On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 14:01 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
+> 
+>>> Since there's no identification in the message, all I could 
+>>> suggest is a brute-force search of all files on the root or
+>>> /usr partitons for the string "ConsoleKit", which appears in
+>>> the error message. Then, identify the package which owns the
+>>> file using rpmdrake.
+>>> 
+>> Makes sense.  The only problem is I don't know how to do that.  I
+>>  tried to use a combination of cat and grep, but there is no 
+>> recursive flag, so that won't work.  How would you do it?
+> 
+> (1) grep -l -r ConsoleKit . this is easiest; -r is "recursive" But
+> it will cross file system boundaries, so if you do it from / it
+> will go into /use and /media and anywhere else it can find!
+> 
+> (2) find / /usr -type f -xdev -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l ConsoleKit
+>  This is the usual "find" approach. -type f means only print names
+> of files, not directories, symbolic links or device files... -xdev
+> means don't stray into other filesystems like /home -print0 is the
+> same as -print (prints each matching name) but prints the filenames
+> with a NUL (character 0, hence the 0 in -print0) after each name,
+> instead of putting each file on a separate line. This is needed
+> because of filenames containing spaces or newlines.
+> 
+> xargs reads a list of files, one per line, or, with -0 (again the 
+> digit zero) separated by NUL bytes; it runs the command on each of
+>  the files
+> 
+> The -l option to grep says to print just the filename, needed in
+> case there are binaries that contain the string.
+> 
+Perfect.  The 'find' returns
+
+/usr/lib/libpowerdevilcore.so.0.1.0
+/usr/lib/packagekitd
+/usr/lib/libpolkit-qt-core-1.so.1.103.0
+/usr/bin/xdm
+/usr/bin/gnome-session
+/usr/share/doc/nautilus/NEWS
+/usr/share/doc/dbus/NEWS
+/usr/share/doc/networkmanager-applet/ChangeLog
+/usr/share/doc/sane-backends-1.0.23/ChangeLog
+/usr/share/doc/gnome-power-manager/NEWS
+/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gio/gdbus.html
+/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/NetworkManager/ref-migrating.html
+/root/.bash_history
+/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db
+/var/lib/rpm/Providename
+/var/run.runmove~/ConsoleKit/database
+/var/log/journal/2d49f2c66f3a45939d7973a4109a2e81/system at 0004cf2cec30ebaa-f4cbcc04fef75c0b.journal~
+/var/log/journal/2d49f2c66f3a45939d7973a4109a2e81/system at 0004ce3e93292fec-435b91656aa64987.journal~
+/etc/security/msec/perm.netbook
+/etc/security/msec/perm.standard
+/etc/security/msec/perm.webserver
+/etc/security/msec/perm.fileserver
+/etc/security/msec/perm.secure
+/usr/lib/libpowerdevilcore.so.0.1.0
+/usr/lib/packagekitd
+/usr/lib/libpolkit-qt-core-1.so.1.103.0
+/usr/bin/xdm
+/usr/bin/gnome-session
+/usr/share/doc/nautilus/NEWS
+/usr/share/doc/dbus/NEWS
+/usr/share/doc/networkmanager-applet/ChangeLog
+/usr/share/doc/sane-backends-1.0.23/ChangeLog
+/usr/share/doc/gnome-power-manager/NEWS
+/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gio/gdbus.html
+/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/NetworkManager/ref-migrating.html
+
+Anne
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