[Voyage-linux] voyage.update missets /var permissions, and apt-get update shows inappropriate lilo warning

[Gustin Johnson]

Did you remember to use the "--numeric-owner" option in tar when
decompressing the tarball before the install?

Various parts of /var are owned by different users, it is probably
best to re-install.

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Mark Schlegel <moschleg at verizon.net> wrote:
> I just got my Alix 2d2 installed with Voyage MPD 0.7.5 and had some questions.
>
> When I did the set up for nfs, that went fine and then so did the initial apt-
> get update and upgrade to update my installation.
> But the upgrade shows a warning page that tells me to run liloconfig and
> /sbin/lilo or else my install will not work.  But looking around I think
> Voyage mpd 0.7.5 is grub based so this warning is bogus and can just be
> ignored?
>
> Also, I then tried to start mpd with:
>
> # /etc/init.d/mpd start
>
> but then got this error:
>
> Starting Music Player Daemon: mpdFailed to load database: Failed to open
> database file "/var/lib/mpd/tag_cache": No such file or directory
> database: Can't create db file in "/var/lib/mpd": Permission denied
> no message buffer overruns failed!
>
> I then looked and found most of the directories under /var were owned by id
> "500" which doesn't exist on my Alix box which explains the permission
> problem.  I think this is pollution from my Fedora box where I build the CF
> card by doing:
>
> format-cf.sh
>
> and
>
> voyage.update    using the tar ball file.  My Fedora user id is 500/500
> (default for user ids, they start from 500 and go up).  Is this a problem with
> the voyage.update script?   Would the fix be to just set all the dirs and files
> under /var/ as owned by "mpd" or should that be 'root' ?
>
> Mark
>
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