sudo passwd root -- operation not permitted

[Michael Havens]

you know....my system started behaving like that before the drive failed
(if i remember correctly).
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:

> 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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