From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 20:49:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 20:49:39 -0500 Received: from web11801.mail.yahoo.com ([216.136.172.155]:23054 "HELO web11801.mail.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 20:49:30 -0500 Message-ID: <20010305014929.69993.qmail@web11801.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 17:49:29 -0800 (PST) From: "Frédéric L. W. Meunier" Subject: Re: 2.4.2: What happened ? (No such file or directory) To: Jeremy Jackson Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3AA26659.89222B2B@coplanar.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- Jeremy Jackson 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... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/