Permission problem

[rmbjlb]

I was rebooting gentoo and started receiving this error in the boot process:

* For Gentoo to function properly, "/var/lib/init.d" needs to exist.
* Please mount your root partition read/write, and execute:

* # mkdir -p /var/lib/init.d
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):

Server had been running fine for years (since 2007) so not sure what cause this error to pop up.

I tried to delete /var/lib/init.d but I get permission denied.

Any ideas? Kinda got me in a bad spot right now.

Thanks in advance for any help...

[muhsinzubeir]

No idea how this would happen, but more info should be in /etc/fstab

[rmbjlb]

Thanks for the tip muhsinzubeir but I looked in that file and see nothing unusual. Matter of fact I have a snapshot from that file two years ago and nothing appears to have changed.

I'm open for more suggestions though. When I run ls -l /var/lib/init.d I get:

[Telemin]

Can you not just chown and then chmod the directory, I believe root has permissions to chmod and chown anything always, to avoid an "immovable object vs unstoppable force" kind of paradox with permissions.

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[rmbjlb]

Hi Telemin, nope it will not let me touch it (permission denied) regardless of what I try and I'm logged in as root. I even tried umount and ran fsck but everything came back ok. The kicker is I got three servers down, they are all running gentoo, and they are all doing the same thing and went down at the same time. Had a storm hit in our area and the power went out. The servers are on battery backup and surge protection but the power was out long enough that the batteries failed before I could get the generator running. I guess there is a lot to be said about doing a graceful shut down.

[John R. Graham]

Obviously there are issues with the filesystem. Boot up under a LiveCD of some sort (I recommend SystemRescueCD) and fsck the (unmounted) root filesystem.

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