lotusalive
September 23rd, 2009, 08:23 PM
Hi All: I configured my NTFS partition last night with System>Admin>NTFS
Configuration Tool, and for some reason it showed up as an icon on my
desktop. I must have made an incorrect choice, since I have lost all
root access to my system.
sol@sol-desktop:~$ -|.Xauthority
bash: -: command not found
bash: .Xauthority: command not found
sol@sol-desktop:~$
and
sol@sol-desktop:~$ su root
Password:
su: Authentication failure
sol@sol-desktop:~$
and yet, command: sudo synaptic worked the first time, and successfully removed a package.
On second try of sudo synaptic,
Error messages are:
E: Unable to write mmap - msync (28 No space left on device)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
Is it possible that I unmounted my root partition, and mounted the NTFS partition in place of it ? Is it possible to recover? I'm afraid to reboot at this point... All information appreciated.:confused:
A look at gparted (by sudo /usr/sbin/gparted, with Error: Input/Output error
during read on /dev/sdc) shows NTFS mounted as /media/NTFS, and / is actually
full at 54.99 GiB... There is plenty of room in the home partition to resize,
but that option is not offered me without root access. Anything else I can do ?
(Am uninstalling two large programs from /, currently.)
Configuration Tool, and for some reason it showed up as an icon on my
desktop. I must have made an incorrect choice, since I have lost all
root access to my system.
sol@sol-desktop:~$ -|.Xauthority
bash: -: command not found
bash: .Xauthority: command not found
sol@sol-desktop:~$
and
sol@sol-desktop:~$ su root
Password:
su: Authentication failure
sol@sol-desktop:~$
and yet, command: sudo synaptic worked the first time, and successfully removed a package.
On second try of sudo synaptic,
Error messages are:
E: Unable to write mmap - msync (28 No space left on device)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
Is it possible that I unmounted my root partition, and mounted the NTFS partition in place of it ? Is it possible to recover? I'm afraid to reboot at this point... All information appreciated.:confused:
A look at gparted (by sudo /usr/sbin/gparted, with Error: Input/Output error
during read on /dev/sdc) shows NTFS mounted as /media/NTFS, and / is actually
full at 54.99 GiB... There is plenty of room in the home partition to resize,
but that option is not offered me without root access. Anything else I can do ?
(Am uninstalling two large programs from /, currently.)