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

[Colin Guthrie]

'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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