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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 11:21:46 +0100 From: Colin Guthrie <[email protected]> To: Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] ANNOUNCE: The /usr move cometh! <---- Instructions 'Twas brillig, and Shlomi Fish at 23/07/12 11:08 did gyre and gimble: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:04:30 +0300 > Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> 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. OK, so whatever package ships /var/lock/console folder needs to be updated to ship a tmpfiles.d conf file to create that folder on boot. /var/lock should be a symlink to /run/lock and thus reside on tmpfs and thus the tmpfiles.d file should take care of things for you. Col -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Perl Humour - http://perl-begin.org/humour/ Chuck Norris once wrote a 10 million lines C++ program in Microsoft Notepad without having to use the backspace key. And it compiled without errors or warnings, and was 100% bug‐free. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
