Bug 45915 – Startup after stage1 installation results in error message

• Product: Gentoo Release Media
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Dave 2004-03-27 11:42:40 UTC]

I get the following error message during start up immediately after my stage1 install:

can't create lock file /etc/mtab~68: Read-only file system (use -n flag to override)

The file permissions of /etc/mtab ar -rw-r--r--  and it's root/root

I can log on, everything seems to be fine, and mtab *seems* ok.

But should this be happening?

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-03-27 12:44:52 UTC]

Is your fstab set up correctly?
Can you please attach it?

[Comment 2 Dave 2004-03-27 18:00:27 UTC]

Created attachment 28181 [details]
fstab file for my computer

I've attached my fstab.

[Comment 3 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-03-28 02:19:41 UTC]

I don't see this bug being related to the livecd - reassigning

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-10-03 03:07:22 UTC]

harmless; can be ignored

do you see this once or with every reboot ?

when do you see this ? (what is the message before and after)

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2004-10-09 22:26:13 UTC]

need to know where you see this during boot up

post the last message you see before the error appears and the first message that appears after the error

[Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:24:22 UTC]

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.