Did you try using the 4.8.11 kernel in Porteus 3.2.2? This worked.We (I) need a plan B...
Not much helpBogomips wrote:then just work around
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k=$(uname -r)
if [[ ${k%-porteus} == 4.9.0 ]]; then echo "This doesn't work with this release"; ...
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k=$(uname -r)
if [[ ${k%-porteus} == 4.9.0 ]]; then tar c /home/guest/.config/nemo | tar x -C /tmp/mod
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guest@porteus:~$ mkdir tst
guest@porteus:~$ chmod 1777 tst
guest@porteus:~$ ls -ld tst
drwxrwxrwt 2 guest users 40 Jan 11 13:49 tst/
guest@porteus:~$ tar c /home/guest/.config | tar x -C tst
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
guest@porteus:~$ du -sh tst
296K tst
guest@porteus:~$ tree -ad tst
tst
└── home
└── guest
└── .config
├── autostart-scripts
├── gconf
├── gnome-mplayer
├── kdeconnect
├── mc
├── pulse
└── session
10 directories
guest@porteus:~$ ls -ld tst/home/
drwxr-xr-x 3 guest users 60 Jan 11 13:53 tst/home//
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guest@porteus:~$ ls -ld /tmp/
drwxrwxrwx 7 root root 36864 Jan 11 13:54 /tmp//
guest@porteus:~$ mkdir /tmp/mod
guest@porteus:~$ tar c /home/guest/.config | tar x -C /tmp/mod
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
guest@porteus:~$ tree -ad /tmp/mod
/tmp/mod
└── home
└── guest
└── .config
├── autostart-scripts
├── gconf
├── gnome-mplayer
├── kdeconnect
├── mc
├── pulse
└── session
10 directories
guest@porteus:~$ du -sh /tmp/mod/
340K /tmp/mod/
guest@porteus:~$ ls -ld /tmp/mod/home/
drwxr-xr-x 3 guest users 4096 Jan 11 13:57 /tmp/mod/home//
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guest@porteus:~$ ls -ld /home/
drwxr-xr-x 6 guest users 60 Feb 18 2016 /home//
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guest@porteus:~$ mkdir ord
guest@porteus:~$ cp -a --parents /home/guest/.config/ ord
cp: preserving permissions for ‘ord/home/guest/.config/autostart-scripts’: Invalid argument
cp: preserving permissions for ‘ord/home/guest/.config/gnome-mplayer’: Invalid argument
cp: preserving permissions for ‘ord/home/guest/.config/mc’: Invalid argument
cp: preserving permissions for ‘ord/home/guest/.config/pulse’: Invalid argument
cp: preserving permissions for ‘ord/home/guest/.config/gconf’: Invalid argument
cp: preserving permissions for ‘ord/home/guest/.config/kdeconnect’: Invalid argument
cp: preserving permissions for ‘ord/home/guest/.config/session’: Invalid argument
cp: preserving permissions for ‘ord/home/guest/.config’: Invalid argument
cp: preserving permissions for ‘ord/home/guest’: Invalid argument
Ohh... so it's a whole release problem not just a 3.2.2 /tmp problem. I thought based on donald's post it was only a /tmp problem.Bogomips wrote:
- Thought it needed to be in /tmp
- Using the same cp -a --parents on an ordinary directory, got same error messages
But I see now his destination is outside of the Porteus system. hmmmm...donald wrote:Now I copied to a different location
( cp -a -p /home/guest/.config/* /mnt/sda3/test ) -- (ext2 filesystem)
and got no error at all.
As pointed out before, -p != --parents.Ed_P wrote:But I see now his destination is outside of the Porteus system. hmmmm...donald wrote:Now I copied to a different location
( cp -a -p /home/guest/.config/* /mnt/sda3/test ) -- (ext2 filesystem)
and got no error at all.