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On 1/3/07, maillists <lists@×××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 19:17 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote: |
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> > On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 16:47 -0500, maillists wrote: |
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> > > I tried this: |
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> > > thor rbragg # chown root.portage /var/lib/portage/world |
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> > > chown: changing ownership of `/var/lib/portage/world': Read-only file |
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> > > system |
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> > |
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> > It seems like your file system is mounted read only. What is the output |
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> > of mount for the file system that the file is on? Is the mount option |
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> > ro, or rw? |
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> > |
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> > Randy Barlow |
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> |
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> wow your right, I can't even do a "touch"! |
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> That seems drastic, how might that have happened? when I started, I did |
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> an emerge -auvDN system, and had to unmerge pam-login because it was |
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> blocking many things. now I don't want to log out or reboot because I |
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> will not be able to get back in! |
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> |
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> Is there a way I can remount or fix this without logging out or |
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> re-booting? |
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Try: |
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mount -o remount,rw filesystemname |
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where filesystemname is generally /var unless you're running one |
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partition in which case it's just /. |
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dcm |
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