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

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 18/04/12 12:57 did gyre and gimble:
> 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 18/04/12 12:32 did gyre and gimble:
>> On 17/04/12 21:22, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>>> As you do not have any legacy initscripts messing things up, I think
>>> the problem you now face is more simple. We need to find out exactly
>>> what's wrong.
>>>
>>>
>>> I guess the next stage is to: 1. Boot. 2. Assuming X does not start,
>>> switch to tty2 3. Get the output of: systemctl show prefdm.service 4.
>>> Assuming it's actually tried to start it (look for dates in the 
>>> ActiveEnterTimestamp variable near the top),
>>
>> ActiveEnterTimestamp=Tues, 17 Apr 2012 14:47:50 +0100 (yes, it was on
>> all night :-) )
>>
>> then look in
>>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
>>>
>>
>>> If you happen to have a radeon, and it's using the vesa driver it
>>> could be the same problem Oliver is seeing: 
>>> https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5426
>>>
>> It's Intel.  It seems to be a bit unhappy that the Wacom tablet isn't
>> attached, but ISTR that the same thing happened when it was attached so
>> I doubt if that is relevant.  The logfile is attached.
> 
> Yeah it seems to be related to the tablet... can you try just moving the
> xorg.conf out the way (mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.ignore)
> and reboot and see if it's happier?

Actually I don't think it's that in retrospect... There seems to be two
seconds where X just sits and waits. Then it closes down normally.

[    70.650] (**) Option "xkb_options" "compose:rwin"
[    72.501] (II) evdev: Power Button: Close

So the next step is to see where the rest of the errors come from.

1. What display manager are you using? I'm guessing KDM. If so what does
/var/log/kdm.log say?

I suspect it has those dbus related errors... but it would be nice to
confirm.

I'm pretty sure it's KDM that failing and subsequently bringing X down
with it. I'll see if I can reproduce with KDM here.

Col


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