Help wanted with Samba

William Unruh

2022-01-04 19:28:36 UTC

SNIP

Is it running the latest kernel? There was a regression that slipped
through, that
has been fixed ...
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29641#c45
Regards, Dave Hodgins

Oh dear, time to reopen the catalogue of woes. I had downloaded 5.15.11
but hadn't rebooted. When I did, I got dumped into emergency mode

So, boot a different kernel. I do hope that you did not erase all prior
kernels when you you installed 5.15.11
That is ALWAYS a bad idea. Always make sure that your new kernel is
working before erasing all the older kernels.
And never follow the advice to remove all orphaned packages. You will
almost certainly destroy your installation. The test for what is an
orphaned package leaves something to be desired.

Makes no difference, William, tried 5.15.10 and 5.10.16, recovery mode,
level 3: always ends in emergency mode. I believe the problem lies in
setting up the user (i.e. my) graphic environment. As I said (below, to
your confusion), I can enter startx as root and up comes a beautiful
Mageia screen with the usual basic icons on the bottom line.

So, it is not a problem with the latest kernel.

In emergency mode, go into /boot/grub2/grub.cfg file and in the first
entry, look for
linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.15.11-desktop.....
line, and remove the quiet and splash options from that line and save
it. That way yo u will be able to see what the system is doing befor it
dumps you into emergency mode.

Or as soon as you see the spash screen, hit esc to see what is
happening.

I have no idea when you enter startx as root. When you are in emergency
mode? It is no wonder that is problematic.

Post by William Unruh

(either when doing level 5 or level 3). Xorg.0.log contains a message
dbus-core: error connecting to system bus
Googled this: Is dbus service running? No it isn't, bet when I start it,
the system reverts to the emergency screen with a locked-up system.
Plasma working OK with root log-in

I am confused. You say you were dumped into emergency but then that
Plasma works with root login.

See above

Post by William Unruh

Wanted to change/install a different DM, but can't get into MCC either
from the launcher or the icon on the bottom screen bar.

You can always type mcc into a terminal.

If I type mcc in at erminal, I get Error getting authority: Error
initialising authority: could not connect: no such file or directory
(/root/.config/gtk-3.0/window-decorations.css)

Post by William Unruh

What do I need to get the network up? I've done
systemctl stas systemd-networkd.service and
systemctl start systemd-resolved.service.
If I can get access to my data, at least I can do some important
start-of-year processing. I suppose I need dbus running to do anything. BAH!

I just found I could use Network Centre to start the network. Pinging
works, but when I tried to download some updates, Plasma aborted and
threw me back to the emergency mode screen, but with a frozen system
(doesn't even respond to Ctl/Shift/Del)