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 11:04:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:04:22 -0500 Received: from tomts8.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.52]:17867 "EHLO tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:04:18 -0500 Message-ID: <3AA26659.89222B2B@coplanar.net> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 10:59:21 -0500 From: Jeremy Jackson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Frédéric L. W. Meunier" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.2: What happened ? (No such file or directory) In-Reply-To: <20010304043531.60248.qmail@web11802.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org " 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~