-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 26/11/12 13:33, Anne Wilson wrote: > On 25/11/12 17:22, Liam R E Quin wrote: >> On Sun, 2012-11-25 at 14:01 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > >>>> Since there's no identification in the message, all I could >>>> suggest is a brute-force search of all files on the root or >>>> /usr partitons for the string "ConsoleKit", which appears in >>>> the error message. Then, identify the package which owns the >>>> file using rpmdrake. >>>> >>> Makes sense. The only problem is I don't know how to do that. >>> I tried to use a combination of cat and grep, but there is no >>> recursive flag, so that won't work. How would you do it? > >> (1) grep -l -r ConsoleKit . this is easiest; -r is "recursive" >> But it will cross file system boundaries, so if you do it from / >> it will go into /use and /media and anywhere else it can find! > >> (2) find / /usr -type f -xdev -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l >> ConsoleKit This is the usual "find" approach. -type f means only >> print names of files, not directories, symbolic links or device >> files... -xdev means don't stray into other filesystems like >> /home -print0 is the same as -print (prints each matching name) >> but prints the filenames with a NUL (character 0, hence the 0 in >> -print0) after each name, instead of putting each file on a >> separate line. This is needed because of filenames containing >> spaces or newlines. > >> xargs reads a list of files, one per line, or, with -0 (again the >> digit zero) separated by NUL bytes; it runs the command on each >> of the files > >> The -l option to grep says to print just the filename, needed in >> case there are binaries that contain the string. > > Perfect. The 'find' returns > > /usr/lib/libpowerdevilcore.so.0.1.0 /usr/lib/packagekitd > /usr/lib/libpolkit-qt-core-1.so.1.103.0 /usr/bin/xdm > /usr/bin/gnome-session /usr/share/doc/nautilus/NEWS > /usr/share/doc/dbus/NEWS > /usr/share/doc/networkmanager-applet/ChangeLog > /usr/share/doc/sane-backends-1.0.23/ChangeLog > /usr/share/doc/gnome-power-manager/NEWS > /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gio/gdbus.html > /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/NetworkManager/ref-migrating.html > /root/.bash_history /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db > /var/lib/rpm/Providename /var/run.runmove~/ConsoleKit/database > /var/log/journal/2d49f2c66f3a45939d7973a4109a2e81/[email protected]~ > > /var/log/journal/2d49f2c66f3a45939d7973a4109a2e81/[email protected]~ > /etc/security/msec/perm.netbook /etc/security/msec/perm.standard > /etc/security/msec/perm.webserver > /etc/security/msec/perm.fileserver /etc/security/msec/perm.secure > /usr/lib/libpowerdevilcore.so.0.1.0 /usr/lib/packagekitd > /usr/lib/libpolkit-qt-core-1.so.1.103.0 /usr/bin/xdm > /usr/bin/gnome-session /usr/share/doc/nautilus/NEWS > /usr/share/doc/dbus/NEWS > /usr/share/doc/networkmanager-applet/ChangeLog > /usr/share/doc/sane-backends-1.0.23/ChangeLog > /usr/share/doc/gnome-power-manager/NEWS > /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gio/gdbus.html > /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/NetworkManager/ref-migrating.html > No-one able to help?
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