james derry wrote:
#hi, bela,

#thanks for your reply. as a sanity check, i made sure that as root to run `apt-get upgrade` from root directory (/). same problem.

#looking further, it seems the problem may have to do with root permissions problems, and not with apt-get or dpkg at all. logged in as root on ssh, i cannot `touch` a test file to /usr/bin/ directory:

touch: creating '/usr/bin/testFile': Permission denied

The only thing I can imagine is that /usr (or /usr/bin) is network-mounted from some other host, that doesn't permit writing.
What does /proc/mounts say about how /usr is mounted?


(If /usr were mounted read-only on a local device, root also would not be allowed to touch there, but the error message would be different).



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