Re: [gentoo-laptop] problem with glibc update

["Devon Miller" <devon.c.miller@gmail.com>]

On 1/3/07, maillists <lists@gmnet.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 19:17 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 16:47 -0500, maillists wrote:
> > > I tried this:
> > > thor rbragg # chown root.portage /var/lib/portage/world
> > > chown: changing ownership of `/var/lib/portage/world': Read-only file
> > > system
> >
> > It seems like your file system is mounted read only.  What is the output
> > of mount for the file system that the file is on?  Is the mount option
> > ro, or rw?
> >
> > Randy Barlow
>
> wow your right, I can't even do a "touch"!
>
> That seems drastic, how might that have happened? when I started, I did
> an emerge -auvDN system, and had to unmerge pam-login because it was
> blocking many things. now I don't want to log out or reboot because I
> will not be able to get back in!
>
> Is there a way I can remount or fix this without logging out or
> re-booting?

Try:
    mount -o remount,rw filesystemname
where filesystemname is generally /var unless you're running one
partition in which case it's just /.

dcm
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