xfs is horked!?

[Roger Oberholtzer]

'tarred' to copy a system? Yikes. I know GNU tar is better at this than
older tars, but I would have used cpio, which handles device and
special files (like pipes) better. Just personal (and probably
superstitious) behavior.

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 09:39:34 -0400 (EDT)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> Turns out that the permissions on all of /tmp were somehow messed up.  I
> don't know how this is possible, when I tarred up the entire / filesystem
> (which included eveything but /boot).  So X is working now, although
> something is still screwy with fonts, cause i can't open an xterm.  Seems
> that it can't find a font that it needs.  ugh.


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