rights messed up after moving installation

Daniel J Walsh dwalsh at redhat.com
Tue Nov 6 10:52:50 UTC 2012


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On 11/05/2012 06:07 PM, lee wrote:
> lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> writes:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> A "touch /.autorelabel ; reboot" fixed this :))
> 
> 
> Now I'm used to login on the console and to run "startx & logout", and when
> I do that, I don't have sound in the X-session.  When I only do "startx &"
> without logging out, I do have sound.
> 
> Is there a way to fix that so that I can still have sound in the X-session
> while I'm logged out from the console?
> 
Do you have sound if you do this in permissive mode?

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