[Mageia-dev] Utter frustration

Wed Nov 28 15:08:28 CET 2012

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+On 26/11/12 13:33, Anne Wilson wrote:
+> 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
+> 
+No-one able to help?
+
+Anne
+- -- 
+Need KDE help? Try
+http://userbase.kde.org or
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