[AuckLUG] `libgl1-mesa-dri': Permission denied

[Guy K. Kloss]

On Saturday 21 April 2007 11:22:34 am Cheng Eu Chew wrote:
> So... even root can't write to that partition? How can that be? I get
> the same thing when I try sudo.
>
> Yes, I'm using Ubuntu.

Ah, OK. So you're doing that from a running system. It's a bit dangerous to 
manage these things in modifying the writeable mounted file system on a 
running system. It's not that root cannot perform this task, it's more the 
case that fsck refuses to perform that task to prevent youself from shooting 
your own foot.

Have you still got the/a Ubuntu install CD around? Preferrably one of those 
that come with the live system installer (think they started that with 6.06 
LTS)?

If so, put that into your CD/DVD drive and boot off of that one. Then when the 
system has booted run a terminal/console and issue the same command there 
using sudo:

sudo fsck /dev/hda1

This way you're operating on a non-mounted file system, which is a lot safer. 
Just immagine what happens if some process accesses the FS (in writing) while 
it's being modified ...

HTH,

Guy



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