[Mageia-dev] Broken database problem solved but not all well

[Anne Wilson]

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On 16/04/12 14:41, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 16/04/12 14:34 did gyre and
> gimble:
>> BTW why not displaying a message "switch to tty2 for a login"?
> 
> In the normal case of X or prefdm.service failing, this is exactly
> what happens (it's actually a message saying "your graphical login
> is broken blah blah, press any key to switch to multi-user.target
> (aka runlevel 3".
> 
> This  case is different (if I'm correct in my assumption). The fact
> is that the non-lsb legacy initscripts impose a very, very strict
> ordering on startup (based on their priority numbers in
> /etc/rcX.d/S??foo filenames).
> 
> This strict order is typically full of loops (a -> b -> c -> a),
> so somthing has to give. In order to do that systemd will delete
> jobs to break the loop. Frequently this job turns out to be "the
> prefdm.server start job". When this happens we simply don't know
> that things are failing in order ot display the error message
> (likewise, if we added a totally separate unit for this it too
> could be deleted by these jobs).
> 
> Ultimately the correctly solution is to provide native systemd or 
> LSB-compliant sysvinit scripts.
> 
> I've fixed a couple and have previously linked a spreadsheet where 
> everyone can help out and track progress etc.
> 
> Col
> 
Will the development team gain anything from this thread?  If not, I'm
tempted to try a fresh installation, but if there is gain I will
continue to fight it.

Anne
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