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

[Mark Schlegel]

Sure did, this is the command from my shell history on the pc I made the CF 
on:


tar --numeric-owner -jxf voyage-mpd-0.7.5.tar.bz2


Mark

On Tuesday 09 August 2011 08:59:52 PM you wrote:
> 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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