Re: 2.4.2: What happened ? (No such file or directory)

["Frédéric L. W. Meunier" <fredlwm1@yahoo.com>]

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--- Jeremy Jackson <jerj@coplanar.net> wrote:
> " Frédéric L. W. Meunier" wrote:
> 
> > Correction. I can umount the partitions, but I get
> the
> > following message:
> >
> > "can't link lock file /etc/mtab~: No such file or
> > directory (use -n flag to override)"
> >
> > And /etc/mtab isn't updated.
> 
> Is your root filesystem mounted read-only at any
> point?
> (check with 'mount' look for ro in line for /
> filesystem)
> Check permissions on /etc, /etc/mtab, /etc/mtab~

/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on / type ext2
(rw)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 on
/usr/local/src type ext2 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)

But it's not only umount. Most applications can't find
files, I can't move directories with mc (but mv(1)
works), all symlinks I create point to the symlink,
not the existing file or directory...

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