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 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page