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otti
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 Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 2:46 pm Post subject: can't open lock file /etc/mtab~ |
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Hi,
I have a really strange problem; I switched a while ago from devfs to udev and everything just worked as it should work.
But from time to time I get strange error-messages on the boot-process (it seems to occur randomly):
| Code: | * Mounting local filesystems ...
can't open lock file /etc/mtab~: Read-only file system (use -n flag to override)
* Some local filesystem failed to mount
[ !! ]
* Mounting USB device filesystem (usbfs) ...
Cannot create link /etc/mtab~
Perhaps there is a stale lock file?
* Failed to mount USB device filesystem
[ !! ]
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Then I remove /etc/mtab~ and reboot. Now I suddenly get other error messages:
| Code: | Reiserfs super block in block 16 on 0x305 of format 3.6 with standard journal
Blocks (total/free): 1247037/207344 by 4096 bytes
Filesystem is NOT clean
Filesystem seems mounted read-only. Skipping journal replay.
Checking internal tree..finished
[ ok ]
* Remounting root filesystem read/write ...
[ ok ]
Cannot create link /etc/mtab~
Perhaps there is a stale lock file?
Cannot create link /etc/mtab~
Perhaps there is a stale lock file?
Cannot create link /etc/mtab~
Perhaps there is a stale lock file?
Cannot create link /etc/mtab~
Perhaps there is a stale lock file?
* Setting hostname to mini ...
[ ok ]
* Using /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 as config:
* Loading module b44 ...
[ ok ]
* Loading module acerhk ...
[ ok ]
* Loading module fglrx ...
[ ok ]
* Loading module ide-scsi ...
[ ok ]
* Autoloaded 4 module(s)
* Checking all filesystems ...
[ ok ]
* Mounting local filesystems ...
can't create lock file /etc/mtab~1621: Read-only file system (use -n flag to override)
* Some local filesystem failed to mount
[ !! ]
* Mounting USB device filesystem (usbfs) ...
[ ok ]
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What happens here? My next step is to remove all /etc/mtab* and again to reboot. Now no error messages occur, but before I see the login-prompt, the system reboots again. But after that everything is ok. Now I can boot again for some time without error messages, but then, randomly it seems, I get again this error messages at the beginning...
Thanks for any help. |
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vladgrigorescu
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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| The only /etc/mtab* I have is /etc/mtab. /etc/mtab~ would be a file emacs creates if you edit mtab with it, and can be safely deleted. |
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otti
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| Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Please read the whole post - In the normal case I have no /etc/mtab~ either... |
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vladgrigorescu
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| Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 4:47 am Post subject: |
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| I did read the entire post, and was just letting you know that they could be safely deleted. So... why don't you just write a script to delete them at shutdown? |
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otti
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| Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Because I want to know why the error messages appear sometime and sometime not; and I am not even shure when the mtab~ files are created. I do not edit /etc/mtab, so which program/process creates these files, or are they created at the boot-process?? |
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otti
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| Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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I finally semi-solved the problem  ; I downgraded baselayout from 1.12.0_pre13-r1.ebuild to 1.11.13-r1 (stable). So the error-messages have not reappeared so far... |
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kevinzyguo
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| Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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| otti wrote: | | I finally semi-solved the problem ; I downgraded baselayout from 1.12.0_pre13-r1.ebuild to 1.11.13-r1 (stable). So the error-messages have not reappeared so far... |
hello，do you know how it is created? |
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