Problem with mtab?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello all, I use Debian 1.2/Linux 2.0.29. I have three partitions on my hard disk : /dev/hda1 : linux /dev/hda2 : linux swap /dev/hda3 : ms-dos 6.22 And I have a problem with the mount command : nathalie# mount /hda3/ can't lock lock file /etc/mtab~: timed out So, I delete /etc/mtab~ and it ru

Re: Problem with mtab?

1997-06-28 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
This is what I have in my /etc/init.d/boot, version @(#)boot 2.10 26-Apr-1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [cut] # # Remount rootfs rw (default), but do not try to change mtab because it # is on a ro fs until the remount succeeded. Then clean up old mtabs and # finally write the new mtab. #

Re: Problem with mtab?

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > This is what I have in my /etc/init.d/boot, version [..] > rm -f /etc/mtab~ /etc/nologin [..] > So according to this, /etc/init.d/boot should take care of removing > /etc/mtab~ during the boot. That'll solve the problem, but not the caus

Re: Problem with mtab?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello joost, > > > nathalie# mount /hda3/ > > > can't lock lock file /etc/mtab~: timed out > Apparently your mount eigher doesn't exit properly (maybe it's trying > to mount nfs volumes in the background?), or it's killed for > some other reason. > What does: > $ ps -ax|grep [m]ount > output on

Re: Problem with mtab?

1997-06-28 Thread Sylvain Briole
Hello Heikki, > [cut] > # > # Remount rootfs rw (default), but do not try to change mtab because it > # is on a ro fs until the remount succeeded. Then clean up old mtabs and > # finally write the new mtab. > # > mount -n -o remount,rw / > rm -f /etc/mtab~ /etc/nologin > : > /etc