How copy /usr contents to a new partition?

[Robert Nichols]

Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> I did cpio as explained in other replies to this thread and then
> 
> rsync -avl between the /usr and mount point directories and nthen 
> 'diff'ed  between them. The diff reports some 'no such files', but they 
> are all  symlinks in the destination directory which point to /bin,/sbin 
> and get  corrected when the partition gets attached at /usr.
> 
> So far so good.Nothing seems to be amiss. Even Nautilus reports exact 
> same  number of files and bytes.
> 
> But, when I attach the partition at /usr and login in GUI, Gnome gives 
> an  error message 'no volume controls/devices were found'. But,then 
> sound is  available and kmix shows all the mixer controls. It is only 
> the Gnome  volume control applet which fails.Rest all appear to be alright.
> 
> I first did all the exercise from within GNOME-Gui and then outside of  
> this in root console thinking an open file may not get copied  
> correctly.Still the result is same.Any idea as to what could be wrong?

The app thinks your /var/cache/gstreamer*/registry* file is out of date.
Run (as root) "gst-register" and all will be well.

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