sudo passwd root -- operation not permitted

[Lisa Kachold]

Hi Joe,

Hmmm:  Post your /proc/mounts and your /etc/ftab please?

1) Your / partition shows "errors=remount-ro 0 1

dmesg|grep read-only

If you see a line in dmesg that reads "Remounting filesystem read-only" (/
as 'ro') then obviously it is mounting read only and I would suggest you
force a fsck, but only by booting into the LiveCD say for Knoppix where the
/dev/sda1 is not used for anything.  Once it's no longer mounted read only,
you can force a fsck.  You can also try to unmount and remount.

fsck -y /dev/sda1

OR without rebooting in to a diagnostic distro or LiveCD try:

umount /dev/sda1

mount /dev/sda1 /

THEN Try to FORCE a fsck:

touch /forcefsck
reboot


2) What does your /etc/passwd and /etc/group file say for your users?
Are those numbers the same on your root partition?

You might need to do a quick chown to your ~/ or $HOME directory to get the
right UID/GID for it.

grep root /etc/passwd

grep $username /etc/group

chown -R root:root  /home

cd /home

chown -R $username:$username username


That should clear up and uid/gid issues.

3) It's possible that you are trying to use the UUID to mount that /home
partition and that's failing.  Use the /dev/sda6 instead in your fstab.
 COPY existing FSTAB to backup first:

Remove that UUID line and change to the /device name.  While the UUID is
the standard, you can also use the old conventions like so:

/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
with
/dev/sda6 /home ext4 rw 0 0
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