Ian Douglas wrote;
When I booted my PC this morning it would not start XWindows. Looking more closely at the boot messages I can see, the following errors mingled in amongst the normal messages:
/etc/init.d/rcS: line 9: /dev/null: Read-only filesystem /etc/init.d/rcS: line 28: /dev/null: Read-only filesystem ERROR: Could not open /dev/null (Read-Only file system)
...[snipo]...
If I look in /dev I can see null as -rw-r--r-- If I look in / I can see /proc as dr-xr-xr-x
...[snipo]...
I am running Knoppix 3.1 (installed on my hard disk rather than running off a CD)
Hmm... could it be a permissions problem? are all your groups set up correctly and is your user a member?
Or, because the CDROM filesystem is read only the read only permissions might have been transferred when copied on your disk. Similar to when you copy files from a CD in Windoze all the files have the read flag set. What command did you use to copy the CD files to the HD? With luck 'The Wise Ones' who frequent this list will let us know what you need to do to circumvent this ('cause I don't :o) ).
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