[Mageia-dev] Unable to complete update rtkit package and system failure

Mon Jan 14 18:39:31 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and Kira at 14/01/13 15:58 did gyre and gimble:
+> I had a machine installed mga3 alpha3 and wanna update
+> 
+> it to catch up. But the update sequence stopped at rtkit
+> 
+> package and it just down go on for about 1 hr.
+> 
+> If I kill the update process and go on, even though
+> 
+> it seemed to go smooth to do another urpmi  --auto-update ,
+> 
+> but then I lost ability to login/access filesystem then
+> 
+> total failure of the desktop. I still can change the tty1~tty7
+> 
+> but I can do nothing: only the mouse move, but no way to control
+> 
+> anything or login into textmode.
+> 
+> Anyone please check it?
+
+Chances are some package has written /run/nologin file.
+
+This can happen if you run "systemd-tmpfiles --create" which perhaps
+some package might still do in it's %post....
+
+A reboot should clear out this problem. I'm not 100% sure but I think
+root logins should also still be allowed even with a nologin file...
+could be wrong tho'.
+
+Col
+
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