On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:00:50PM -0300, Paulo wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > Before trashing it all, can you try > > > >ls -li /etc > > > > > > Lot's of things, but still "permission denied" for mtab :( > But, you aren't willing to tell us what it shows, which makes it *difficult* to make suggestions ;-) It would also be interesting to mount it from the host system and try ls -li /mnt/lfs/etc. > > (I'm wondering if mtab got created as a symlink, or /etc otherwise > >has something weird) > > > > > > > Not sure... > > >mount > > (ditto) > > > > > show me the mounted units...
And is anything read-only in the output ? It will be marked as '(ro)' instead of '(rw)'. > > 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. > Already built LFS, or already built this version of LFS ? As you say, if you can identify what changed, you should be closer to solving it. > > > > 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? see above > > I'm using reiserfs (I have always built it with reiserfs, but this is the > first time I get this problem). Ah, that explains the unusual number for the directory size in ls -ld /etc. You might also try looking in the system log, just in case something bad was logged. In fact, I almost wonder if it's a reiserfs problem (perhaps, reiserfs got miscompiled, for example if you used optimisations). I can't find any similar reports anywhere, so the problem seems to be unique [ or alternatively, you are just the first person to report it ]. If it was mounted read-only, and you can fsck it from the host system, you could try that (my experience with reiserfs was not good, but I think it now has a working fsck). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
