On Monday 23 April 2007 09:32, prdcomp wrote: > I think I made something wrong when building the 6.2 lfs system; I'm > getting a mtab failure while booting. It is saying: > > "mount: can't open /etc/mtab for writing: Permission denied" > > It does boot; and I get output from "mount". But if I try to > "ls /etc/mtab", even as root, I get "Permission denied". > > Any hint on what I may have skipped, done wrong and how to fix this?
Does your /etc directory have appropriate access permissions? What does the following command print? $ ls -ld /etc -- Nothing but perfection Vladimir A. Pavlov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
