chown: changing ownership of ... Operation not permitted

[Scott J. Henson]

Gregory Piñero wrote:
> On 8/19/06, Scott J. Henson <scotth at csee.wvu.edu> wrote:
>> It seems as though the perimisions have been messed up.  You
>> may want to do the following.
>> chmod 644 /etc/maplotlibrc
> 
> I should have tried this.
>> As far as rm not working, if you had specified -f it would
>> have worked.
> 
> I tried this as well and got the same result:
> rm: cannot remove `/etc/matplotlibrc': Operation not permitted


>From this and your other reply... it sounds like your root
fs got mounted read-only for some reason.  Generally thats
indicative on a bad thing.  I would do a full back up of all
your important data and then start examining your logs and
install smartmontools and take a look at your harddrives.


-- 
Scott Henson
LCSEE Systems Staff
WVU MAE Undergraduate
Ubuntu User