Did you remember to use the "--numeric-owner" option in tar when decompressing the tarball before the install?
Various parts of /var are owned by different users, it is probably best to re-install. On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Mark Schlegel <[email protected]> wrote: > I just got my Alix 2d2 installed with Voyage MPD 0.7.5 and had some questions. > > When I did the set up for nfs, that went fine and then so did the initial apt- > get update and upgrade to update my installation. > But the upgrade shows a warning page that tells me to run liloconfig and > /sbin/lilo or else my install will not work. But looking around I think > Voyage mpd 0.7.5 is grub based so this warning is bogus and can just be > ignored? > > Also, I then tried to start mpd with: > > # /etc/init.d/mpd start > > but then got this error: > > Starting Music Player Daemon: mpdFailed to load database: Failed to open > database file "/var/lib/mpd/tag_cache": No such file or directory > database: Can't create db file in "/var/lib/mpd": Permission denied > no message buffer overruns failed! > > I then looked and found most of the directories under /var were owned by id > "500" which doesn't exist on my Alix box which explains the permission > problem. I think this is pollution from my Fedora box where I build the CF > card by doing: > > format-cf.sh > > and > > voyage.update using the tar ball file. My Fedora user id is 500/500 > (default for user ids, they start from 500 and go up). Is this a problem with > the voyage.update script? Would the fix be to just set all the dirs and > files > under /var/ as owned by "mpd" or should that be 'root' ? > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > Voyage-linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux > _______________________________________________ Voyage-linux mailing list [email protected] http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux
