Ken Moffat wrote:

>On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 08:30:56PM -0300, Paulo wrote:
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>>Humm. It shows me a lot of things, but not mtab (still "permission denied").
>>
>>Well, I'll try building it all over again. Hope to have better luck! ;)
>>
>>Thanks for the help anyway!
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>>
> Before trashing it all, can you try
>
>ls -li /etc
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>

Lot's of things, but still "permission denied" for mtab :(

> (I'm wondering if mtab got created as a symlink, or /etc otherwise
>has something weird)
>
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Not sure...

>mount
> (ditto)
>  
>
show me the mounted units...

> You are welcome to use your own time to rebuild the system, but
>from experience I know that repeating the same steps usually gives
>the same results - you are much more likely to be able to fix it if
>somebody can get a handle on what exactly is wrong.
>  
>

Yep, it would be better. But I must have done something wrong
this time, because I have already built it in this same comp.
I wonder what I may have done different.

> 
> At the moment, I think the most likely reason not to be able to
>open /etc/mtab for writing would be because the filesystem is
>read-only.
>
That is a good point. I actually had thought about it. But how can
I check if the system is read-only? Can you give me any tip on this?

I'm using reiserfs (I have always built it with reiserfs, but this is the
first time I get this problem).

>  The only things I can suggest for that are either you
>are missing /sbin/fsck (or the version for your filesystem -
>fsck.ext2, fsck.ext3, or whichever) or that one of these is linked
>against /tools.
>
>  
>
Thank you for the help!
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