Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote:

>On Monday 23 April 2007 09:32, prdcomp wrote:
>  
>
>>I think I made something wrong when building the 6.2 lfs system; I'm
>>getting a mtab failure while booting. It is saying: 
>>
>>"mount: can't open /etc/mtab for writing: Permission denied"
>>
>>It does boot; and I get output from "mount". But if I try to
>>"ls /etc/mtab", even as root, I get "Permission denied". 
>>
>>Any hint on what I may have skipped, done wrong and how to fix this?
>>    
>>
>
>Does your /etc directory have appropriate access permissions?
>
>What does the following command print?
>
>$ ls -ld /etc
>
>  
>
Hi, thank you for your help.

"ls -ld /etc" gives me:

drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 1152

And when I try it with etc/mtab:

$ls -ld /etc/mtab
ls: /etc/mtab: Permission Denied




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