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

[Mark Schlegel]

Hmm, it's possible I missed the "as root" part in the instructions, I see it's 
on the next line (highlighted with>> <<) and an extra blank line between:


extract the software tarball:
	tar --numeric-owner -jxf voyage-.tar.bz2
	
>> as root << , run the installation script:


I guess it's time to redo from scratch...

Mark


On Tuesday 09 August 2011 09:24:41 PM Kim-man 'Punky' TSE wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> I have over a hundred installation of Voyage MPD and never see a problem. 
> Of course, I always install the CF on the host computer which is a Debian
> and as root.
> 
> On 8/10/2011 9:08 AM, Mark Schlegel wrote:
> > 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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