Description of problem: I installed Fedora Core 5 test 3 to a reiserfs root partition, now the mount command is behaving pecularly. 'mount' by itself generates no output. Attempts to mount additional reiserfs partitions results in the error "mount: Operation not supported". Attempts to mount ext3 partitions generate the message "can't link lock file /etc/mtab~: Permission denied (use -n flag to override)", but the mount is successful. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mount (util-linux 2.13-pre6) How reproducible: completely Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC5t3 using "linux acpi=off reiserfs" to reiserfs root partition 2. attempt to execute commands below 3. Actual results: [root@liz64 ~]# mount [root@liz64 ~]# cat /etc/fstab /dev/sda9 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 reiserfs defaults 1 1 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 [root@liz64 ~]# mount /dev/sda5 mount: Operation not supported [root@liz64 ~]# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda10 /mnt/sda10 can't link lock file /etc/mtab~: Permission denied (use -n flag to override) [root@liz64 ~]# ls /etc/mtab~ ls: /etc/mtab~: No such file or directory [root@liz64 ~]# mount [root@liz64 ~]# ls /mnt/sda10 bin dev halt lib lost+found misc net proc sbin srv tmp var boot etc home lib64 media mnt opt root selinux sys usr [root@liz64 ~]# ls /mnt/sda5 [root@liz64 ~]# Expected results: 'mount' lists filesystems currently mounted other mount commands succeed without generating errors Additional info:
Do you have mounted /proc? Can you check you /var/log/audit/audit.log (or aureport output)? A lot of problems has been fixed in the latests selinux-policy releases. Please, try update too.
/proc appears to be mounted (the contents of the directory is similar to what I see when I boot another linux partition). I disabled selinux after determining it was inhibiting user root from running graphical configuration tools. /var/log/audit/audit.log has a length of zero. aureport lists all zeroes. The tool "up2date" is not installed. This is consistent with my understanding that updates are not provided for Fedora test cores.
The right tool for Fedora updates is the "yum" command. Can you reproduce this bug on final (updated) Fedora Core 5?
I cannot reproduce the issue with the final Fedora Core 5.
thanks