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

2012-04-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On 17/04/12 21:22, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 17/04/12 16:49 did gyre and gimble: 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 17/04/12 15:13 did gyre and gimble: On 17/04/12 10:00, Colin Guthrie wrote: All of this should be fixed when we update all the legacy

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

2012-04-18 Thread Colin Guthrie
'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:

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

2012-04-18 Thread 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

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

2012-04-18 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

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

2012-04-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On 18/04/12 13:09, Colin Guthrie wrote: '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

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

2012-04-18 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 18/04/12 13:28 did gyre and gimble: 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

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

2012-04-18 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 18/04/12 13:46 did gyre and gimble: On 18/04/12 13:09, Colin Guthrie wrote: 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. kdm.log was 5000 lines and full of identical lines, so I

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

2012-04-18 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/12 14:52, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 18/04/12 13:46 did gyre and gimble: On 18/04/12 13:09, Colin Guthrie wrote: I'm pretty sure it's KDM that failing and subsequently bringing X down with it. I'll see if I

Re: [Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

2012-04-18 Thread Thomas Backlund
15.04.2012 16:16, Anne Wilson skrev: In desperation I tried rm -fR /var/lib/rpm/* - I hope I haven't broken anything too drastic, but nothing seems to have changed. The database will still not rebuild. This part you should _never_ do... You wiped _all_ of rpms databases and any tracking of

Re: [Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

2012-04-18 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/12 17:41, Thomas Backlund wrote: 15.04.2012 16:16, Anne Wilson skrev: In desperation I tried rm -fR /var/lib/rpm/* - I hope I haven't broken anything too drastic, but nothing seems to have changed. The database will still not rebuild.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

2012-04-18 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Le 18/04/2012 18:49, Anne Wilson a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/12 17:41, Thomas Backlund wrote: 15.04.2012 16:16, Anne Wilson skrev: In desperation I tried rm -fR /var/lib/rpm/* - I hope I haven't broken anything too drastic, but nothing seems to have

Re: [Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

2012-04-18 Thread Thomas Backlund
18.04.2012 19:49, Anne Wilson skrev: On 18/04/12 17:41, Thomas Backlund wrote: 15.04.2012 16:16, Anne Wilson skrev: In desperation I tried rm -fR /var/lib/rpm/* - I hope I haven't broken anything too drastic, but nothing seems to have changed. The database will still not rebuild. This

Re: [Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

2012-04-18 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/12 17:58, Thomas Backlund wrote: 18.04.2012 19:49, Anne Wilson skrev: On 18/04/12 17:41, Thomas Backlund wrote: 15.04.2012 16:16, Anne Wilson skrev: In desperation I tried rm -fR /var/lib/rpm/* - I hope I haven't broken anything too

Re: [Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

2012-04-18 Thread Thomas Backlund
18.04.2012 20:25, Anne Wilson skrev: On 18/04/12 17:58, Thomas Backlund wrote: If you want to restore the database at this point you need to reinstall all packages as listed in /var/log/rpmpkgs with --replacepkgs or do a reinstall OK. We need to resolve the problem of broken kdm

Re: [Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

2012-04-18 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 18/04/12 18:32, Thomas Backlund wrote: 18.04.2012 20:25, Anne Wilson skrev: On 18/04/12 17:58, Thomas Backlund wrote: If you want to restore the database at this point you need to reinstall all packages as listed in /var/log/rpmpkgs with

Re: [Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

2012-04-18 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 18/04/12 19:40 did gyre and gimble: On 18/04/12 18:32, Thomas Backlund wrote: 18.04.2012 20:25, Anne Wilson skrev: On 18/04/12 17:58, Thomas Backlund wrote: If you want to restore the database at this point you need to reinstall all packages as listed in

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

2012-04-17 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 17/04/12 07:24 did gyre and gimble: On 16/04/12 16:58, Colin Guthrie wrote: OK, so this is incorrect, (prefdm *is* started, but perhaps some other jobs had to be cancelled instead. Can you do this: 1. Add the following the to kernel command line when

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

2012-04-17 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/04/12 10:00, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 17/04/12 07:24 did gyre and gimble: On 16/04/12 16:58, Colin Guthrie wrote: OK, so this is incorrect, (prefdm *is* started, but perhaps some other jobs had to be cancelled

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

2012-04-17 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 17/04/12 15:13 did gyre and gimble: On 17/04/12 10:00, Colin Guthrie wrote: All of this should be fixed when we update all the legacy initscripts. In the mean time if you go into /etc/init.d/ and do: grep -c INIT INFO *| grep -vE

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

2012-04-17 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 17/04/12 16:49 did gyre and gimble: 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 17/04/12 15:13 did gyre and gimble: On 17/04/12 10:00, Colin Guthrie wrote: All of this should be fixed when we update all the legacy initscripts. In the mean time if you go into

Re: [Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

2012-04-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 15/04/12 18:39 did gyre and gimble: On 15/04/12 17:47, Anne Wilson wrote: Attempting to install sound-scripts separately asks whether I want to use systemd-sysvinit or sysvinit-legacy. I've tried both, but both fail due to missing sound-scripts. Found

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

2012-04-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/04/12 09:21, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 15/04/12 18:39 did gyre and gimble: On 15/04/12 17:47, Anne Wilson wrote: Attempting to install sound-scripts separately asks whether I want to use systemd-sysvinit or

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

2012-04-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/04/12 13:15, Anne Wilson wrote: On 16/04/12 09:21, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 15/04/12 18:39 did gyre and gimble: On 15/04/12 17:47, Anne Wilson wrote: Attempting to install sound-scripts separately asks

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

2012-04-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 16/04/12 13:28 did gyre and gimble: On 16/04/12 13:15, Anne Wilson wrote: On 16/04/12 09:21, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 15/04/12 18:39 did gyre and gimble: On 15/04/12 17:47, Anne Wilson wrote: Attempting to install

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

2012-04-16 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 16 April 2012 15:27, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: I strongly suspect it's not hanging. It's likely just stopped doing things. Flip over to tty2 and you should have a text login. From there, can you get the output of systemctl status prefdm.service I suspect it has not even

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

2012-04-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
'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

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

2012-04-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/04/12 14:27, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 16/04/12 13:28 did gyre and gimble: On 16/04/12 13:15, Anne Wilson wrote: On 16/04/12 09:21, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 15/04/12 18:39 did gyre

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

2012-04-16 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

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

2012-04-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 16/04/12 14:57 did gyre and gimble: On 16/04/12 14:27, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at 16/04/12 13:28 did gyre and gimble: On 16/04/12 13:15, Anne Wilson wrote: On 16/04/12 09:21, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Anne Wilson at

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

2012-04-16 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 16/04/12 14:34 did gyre and gimble: On 16 April 2012 15:27, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Failed to start LSB: Update the Intel / AMD CPU microcode [FAILED] That's likely because you do not have the microcode itself installed. It's from a

[Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

2012-04-15 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cauldron on Acer Aspire One 533 I tested a Cauldron install (beta 2 download) on VirtualBox and found no serious problems, so started yesterday to prepare my netbook for my holiday. It took 5 hours to install - using a USB DVD drive. Once Coling

Re: [Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

2012-04-15 Thread Manuel Hiebel
Le 15/04/2012 15:16, Anne Wilson a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cauldron on Acer Aspire One 533 I tested a Cauldron install (beta 2 download) on VirtualBox and found no serious problems, so started yesterday to prepare my netbook for my holiday. It took 5 hours to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

2012-04-15 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/04/12 16:25, Manuel Hiebel wrote: Le 15/04/2012 15:16, Anne Wilson a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cauldron on Acer Aspire One 533 I tested a Cauldron install (beta 2 download) on VirtualBox and found no serious

Re: [Mageia-dev] Broken database problem

2012-04-15 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/04/12 17:47, Anne Wilson wrote: Attempting to install sound-scripts separately asks whether I want to use systemd-sysvinit or sysvinit-legacy. I've tried both, but both fail due to missing sound-scripts. Found the package listed by