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

Anne Wilson annew at kde.org
Wed Apr 18 14:28:13 CEST 2012


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On 18/04/12 12:57, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> '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?
> 
:-(  It stops at exactly the same place, "Started LSB: Network
monitoring daemon [OK]"

The tablet is a non-urgent issue - I'll leave it off for now.  When we
have solved this puzzle I will try the tablet later, but no hurry.

Anne
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