[Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions

[Shlomi Fish]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:04:30 +0300
Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > BTW, I should note that right now after a few reboots, I am getting these
> > > symtoms:
> > > 
> > > 1. I cannot run pm-suspend as user "shlomif", only as root.
> > 
> > This might be to do with how you login. If you don't use a regular
> > display manager then there may be things that are not hooked up right.
> > Not sure.
> 
> I am using kdm (cannot use "startx", though previously pm-suspend worked with
> startx).
> 

Replying to myself, I'd like to note that I found a solution to problem #1 and
to problem #3 in these posts:

* https://listman.redhat.com/archives/pam-list/2001-December/msg00069.html

* http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/pam-authentification-failed-cannot-start-x-server-117935/

What I did was (as root):

# mkdir -p /var/lock/console
# touch /var/lock/console/shlomif (where "shlomif" is your user name).

This fixed this problem. Since /var/lock was misplaced due to the /usr move
transition, it was indeed caused by it.

I'll see if it also fixed problem No. 2.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> > 
> > > 2. On X, I am getting a frequent and random "The password you entered is
> > > incorrect [CLOSE]" dialogues which I have to click through.
> > 
> > I've seen these dialogs too. I don't think this is anything to do with
> > usrmove but rather some other update. Not tracked down what causes it tho'.
> 
> OK. I'll try to investigate.
> 
> > 
> > > 3. Running startx as user "shlomif" gives me:
> > > 
> > > <<<
> > > xauth:  file /home/shlomif/.serverauth.2718 does not exist
> > > 
> > > Authentication failed - cannot start X server.
> > > Perhaps you do not have console ownership?
> > >>>>
> > 
> > Dunno about that one. Could be related to new X stuff but again I don't
> > *think* it's related to the usrmove (could be wrong of course)
> 
> Yes. Correlation does not imply causation.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 
> 



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<mst> I find it’s usually safe to assume that whatever shlomif’s doing, there
isn’t a good reason for it.

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