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Nnyan

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Registered: 2006-01-09

Posts: 22

various locks keep me from proceeding

Ok,

Just installed base and I'm getting various errors:

1.  went to change the root password and get this error:  "Authentication token lock busy".

2.  went to add a user (using both useradd and adduser):  ": unable to lock password file... --account not created".

3.  various upgrades using pacman:  "error: unable to lock pacman database.".

any help would be greatly appreciated

Thank you

FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

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Re: various locks keep me from proceeding

Is your / mounted writeable? I'd boot off the install CD and review /mnt/etc/fstab (you have to mount your / partition to /mnt first of course).

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grandmouse

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From: germany, bonn

Registered: 2005-05-14

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Re: various locks keep me from proceeding

Do uname -r and ls /lib/modules show different kernel versions ?

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: various locks keep me from proceeding

if a

mount / -o remount,rw

fixes these problems, then your fstab is set up to mount / read-only - you'll need to fix that.