On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:44:45 +0000, I Beartooth wrote: [...] > What the blazes is wrong? Is there some suicidial applet that > takes the workspace switcher (and, it sometimes seems, the whole window- > manager) down with it whenever it self-destructs? What can I do?? I've just happened on a detail in another thread which may be relevant. Someone replying to some question about scp points out a thing I hadn't suspected, and am not sure what to make of; but it must be relevant somehow. One Gianluca Cecchi points out, in a post dated this morning, > gnu tar by default preserves symbolic links, afaik. tried on an fc6 and > it is so. > You have to force -h option when you create the archive to tell gnu tar > to archive the file pointed to and not the link itself Now, what I know of symlinks would go in a gnat's eye. The reason the fact is relevant is that my standard practice, on any clean install (of which, remember, I've been reduced to several in the course of fighting the problem in *this* thread) has been to do the following. I become root at /home, apply tar -czf (Note absence of -h) to all of /btth; become root at /home on the machine with the clean install; scp the tarball to it; chown it to btth, and untar it. (I then run pirut to be reasonably all my usual apps are installed, and run yum clean all, rpm --rebuilddb, updatedb, yum update, and then a reboot.) Almost everything works, time after time, and it saves one helluva lot of tweaking; but I do get this switcher nastiness, always against btth, at random intervals. If Mr./Ms. Cecchi is still right about the symlinks, I'm thinking there must be some broken ones on my machines. Is there a way to do a mass repair, without knowing what and where they are? Or am I/we (if others' problems resemble mine) going to have to do yet another clean install, another whole vast mass of tweaks from scratch instead of using the tarball, and then -- if whatever gods there be, be kind -- make a new tarball with the -h switch, and do only tar - czfh henceforth? If I/we do slog through the whole blasted nine yards, will it work? Is it worth trying? I'm getting *very* tired of all this ... -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious (very precious) little of what I am talking about.
