rights messed up after moving installation

[lee]

Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh at redhat.com> writes:

> On 11/05/2012 05:07 PM, lee wrote:
>> Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> writes:
>> 
>>> From the man page:
>>> 
>>> -a, --archive               archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)
>>> 
>>> So, you need to use "--archive -X" to transfer selinux context info as 
>>> well as the other attributes.
>> 
>> Ugh ... darn ... What do I do now?  Files on /var have been modified in the
>> meantime; I could run rsync on / again.  That should be possible while it's
>> mounted.
>> 
>> What will rsync do?  Only change the info because the file content hasn't
>> changed?
>> 
>> Isn't there a better way to fix this?
>> 
>
> I have not got the full information, but running restorecon on the data will
> probably fix the file contexts.

The context is that I moved the root file system and /var from one disk
to another with insufficient options to rsync.  I have already run
restorecon which enabled me to log in again.  Something is still wrong
because pulseaudio doesn't run anymore and the "users" command produces
no output.

What if I run "yum reinstall *"?  Re-installing all packages should fix
the rights, shouldn't it?