Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:49:42 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz> To: rmichalski@enwin.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to root due to invalid shell Message-ID: <20010125084942.A73739@itouchnz.itouch> In-Reply-To: <852569DE.00591D70.00@alcor.wuc.on.ca>; from rmichalski@enwin.com on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:13:21AM -0500 References: <852569DE.00591D70.00@alcor.wuc.on.ca>
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On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 11:13:21AM -0500, rmichalski@enwin.com wrote:
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> Thanks for answering so quickly. I tried what you said and the file system
> is being mounted, but when I try to use ed to edit the /etc/passwd file I
> get a 'read-only file system' error for '/tmp/ed.a989d' <-- something
> similar to that. It looks like its just trying to create a temporary file
> but it's not allowed to. I can't use vi, it says it can't find it. Have
> you run into something like this before?
When you boot single user, mount all the filesystems read-write with:
# mount -a
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Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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