On Fri, Mar 25, 2016, at 20:30, Alexander Stein wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016, at 19:25, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > > > So why is it that writing to /etc/group fails or your system? > > Are you having filesystem problems and your filesystem became > > remounted read-only? Can you open (as root) /etc/group and write > > to it? What's the status and permissions on /etc/group on your > > system? > > Good question. I tried mounting rw without issue. I can sudo but I am > having issues with direct access to the root account. > > > This seems more like a general system problem on your end rather > > than a bug in the package. > > I would expect you know better than I. I will check and follow up.
It seems something happened to my root account. Reboted and went to init=/bin/bash and ran passwd. Was able to get control of the root account and run the update successfully. I reinstalled this computer yesterday, so I must have improperly documented or did not properly execute my deployment notes for it. Something very specialist of course. I had done so little to the laptop I was not sure how I could make a mistake like this. Apologies for the time wasted; ticket can be closed now.
