On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:54, Anne Wilson wrote: > It finally dawned on me that my attempts to sort out fstab through a > temporary mount in 9.0 had failed because the mount had not completed > correctly. I mounted again, and could then find the file, so I > edited /etc/fstab back to what it was before, and here I am back > again. > > Relying on webmail is awful - it crashed leaving me logged in, as it > has done many times before, so it will be a while before the lock is > released and I find out if anyone had any more thoughts on this. > > Meanwhile, could someone give me some ideas on the problems I had with > loss of root password (which is ok now, so it must have been lost > access to it, not corruption), what I need to do in the way of access > rights to /holding which will be the new /usr, and why I was > constantly getting messages denying access to /bin (related, I > suppose, to the root login problem?). >
can you cut-n-paste your /etc/fstab? I bet /holding is configured to not allow execution, so when you changed that to /usr (per my instructions, sorry), none of the executables under /usr would work. Thanks to the damnable alternatives system, that prevented vi from working: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ ll /bin/vi lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20 Sep 27 2002 /bin/vi -> /etc/alternatives/vi* [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ ll /etc/alternatives/vi vi view vim visor.kde.dynamic [EMAIL PROTECTED] jack]$ ll /etc/alternatives/vi lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Mar 28 13:09 /etc/alternatives/vi -> /usr/bin/vim-enhanced* I'm more puzzled by the inability to use programs from a rescue CD... > I hate to give up, so what do I do now? > > Anne > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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