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. 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. 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 . Thanks, Steve Stancliff