On 4/26/07, Paulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote: > > >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 > > > > > > > Hi, thank you for your help. > > "ls -ld /etc" gives me: > > drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 1152 > > And when I try it with etc/mtab: > > $ls -ld /etc/mtab > ls: /etc/mtab: Permission Denied > That's bad.
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