On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 09:47:12PM -0400, Steve Stancliff wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been running Debian slink for about 4 months now. > Tonight I decided > it was time to take some more disk space away from Windows > and give it to > Linux, so I tarred (-cvvzf) my Linux partitions, > repartitioned the drive, and > untarred (-xvvzf) Linux. > > I had previously done this same operation in cloning my > Linux to another > computer, and had no problems. > > Tonight, after untarring, I have some problems: > > 1) the permissions for the devices in /dev apparently > weren't restored > correctly - I couldn't run wterm until I changed some of > them. I've attached 'ls -l' from my /dev directory. Use diff to compare it to yours and see if there are any differences (other than fd0, dsp, and mixer, which I've changed myself) > > 2) My keyboard isn't working right in X. I have the > backspace-as-del problem, and > also it doesn't recognize the "windows" keys at all. > I realize that there are some standard fixes for the > backspace problem, but I think > my situation is a little different. My guess is that there > is a file somewhere which the > permissions are screwed up on, which is causing the keyboard > problems. Hopefully > someone out there can suggest where to look. > xterms communicate using /dev/ttyp?, perhaps you should check those permissions. > > Finally, should I have done something different with tar in > order to make it properly > restore permissions? Seems strange, since as I said I have > done essentially the same > thing before with no problems . Taking a cursory glance over the tar man and info pages, '-p' causes tar to preserve permissions. Also, there are options to preserve the owner of the file. IMHO, you got lucky the first time. -- Stephen Pitts smpitts@midsouth.rr.com webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
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