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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday, 2009-03-05 at 13:58 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
Cannot create link /etc/mtab~
Perhaps there is a stale lock file? -- Huh?? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Pete,
Something doesn't pass the smell test here. Why should anything be trying to create a link to /etc/mtab~ ??
Yes, it can be. It can be part of a procedure to edit a file creating a backup first. You link 'file' to 'file.bck', then remove 'file' - which is like a rename. Finally, you rename (or link/delete) 'file.new' to 'file'. Which makes me think: an "ls -l /etc/mtab" would show if mtab has any linked file, which doesn't show otherwise: - -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 1823 2009-03-05 14:04 /etc/mtab this ^ number If there is a link, I would try an fsck, booting from a rescue system first. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmwOEMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WInwCghhK5eJ5VCNcdXc1nzVKEd9yb mWgAn2/lVgLpW8eEN8hg1U8Dx4zZWGZb =5Biq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org