a prolonged powerfailure shutdown my computer running ubuntu fiesty in
the middle of a task.
on reboot, everything seemed to work fine,
but my root password is no longer working.
a quick 'pwck' command results in
pwck: cannot lock file /etc/passwd

how do i fix this problem?

tia

:-)
niyam

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