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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