Sounds like you have more serious problems with your setup if you can’t edit that file with sudo.
Can you post the output of sudo ls -al /etc/resolv.conf?
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Hi @yknivag
the command gives the following output
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137 May 15 2016 /etc/resolv.conf
So yeah, I am running everything as user=osmc .
I tried this:
osmc@osmc:~$ sudo chown osmc:osmc /etc/resolv.conf
chown: changing ownership of '/etc/resolv.conf': Operation not permitted
and
osmc@osmc:~$ sudo chmod 777 /etc/resolv.conf
chmod: changing permissions of '/etc/resolv.conf': Operation not permitted
sudo su puts me in root@osmc
Whats the output from mount
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Hi @fzinken . thank you or helping!
not sure what I am looking at
osmc@osmc:~$ mount
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=370520k,nr_inodes=92630,mode=755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,relatime)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/mmcblk0p2 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,stripe=1024,data=ordered)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=22,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)
/dev/mmcblk0p1 on /boot type vfat (rw,noatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro)
sysfs on /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy0/scaling_cur_freq type sysfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /media/wdbook type fuseblk (rw,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=75104k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000)I wanted to just check how your file system is mounted as I was expecting there and issue.
Really getting less ideas. Upload full logs with grab-logs -A maybe we find something
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Greatly appreciated.
Here we are: http://paste.osmc.io/ronuhugafu
A bit of context. The system has been updated since a fresh install about 9 months ago I think.
As can be seen from the first post, I have tried to apply a script for openvpn to start at boot.
At the moment I believe the script is not running, however openvpn does connect automatically. Although not with the DSN server.
Checking the status of rc.local says that the process has failed.
update: the vpn is not running at the moment using the current settings.
Can you post the outcome of:
echo Test > test
cat test
And also
cat /etc/passwd
first
osmc@osmc:~$ echo Test > test
osmc@osmc:~$ cat test
Test
second
smc@osmc:~$ cat /etc/passwd
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/usr/sbin/nologin
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/usr/sbin/nologin
sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/usr/sbin/nologin
man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/usr/sbin/nologin
lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/usr/sbin/nologin
mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/usr/sbin/nologin
news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/usr/sbin/nologin
uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/usr/sbin/nologin
proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/usr/sbin/nologin
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/usr/sbin/nologin
backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/usr/sbin/nologin
list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/usr/sbin/nologin
irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/usr/sbin/nologin
gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/usr/sbin/nologin
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/usr/sbin/nologin
systemd-timesync:x:100:103:systemd Time Synchronization,,,:/run/systemd:/bin/false
systemd-network:x:101:104:systemd Network Management,,,:/run/systemd/netif:/bin/false
systemd-resolve:x:102:105:systemd Resolver,,,:/run/systemd/resolve:/bin/false
systemd-bus-proxy:x:103:106:systemd Bus Proxy,,,:/run/systemd:/bin/false
messagebus:x:104:107::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false
avahi:x:105:108:Avahi mDNS daemon,,,:/var/run/avahi-daemon:/bin/false
ntp:x:106:110::/home/ntp:/bin/false
statd:x:107:65534::/var/lib/nfs:/bin/false
sshd:x:108:65534::/var/run/sshd:/usr/sbin/nologin
osmc:x:1000:1000::/home/osmc:/bin/bash
debian-transmission:x:109:113::/var/lib/transmission-daemon:/bin/false
postfix:x:110:117::/var/spool/postfix:/bin/false
ftp:x:111:119:ftp daemon,,,:/srv/ftp:/bin/falseHad you set a root password in the past?
If yes can you try su and then change the file?
I do not recall setting a password., but su prompts me to input it though.
Try to reset it with sudo passwd
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nice, I was able to reset the password, it now reads rialto
Can you now do su and change your files?
can you please guide me threw the steps?
I can log in as root@osmc
root@osmc:~# chmod 777 /etc/resolv.conf
chmod: changing permissions of '/etc/resolv.conf': Operation not permittedCan you change the content as root?
ie as root, can you issue:
nano /etc/resolv.conf make a change and save it with CtrlO? Or does it say read-only there also?
If it does then there is something very seriously amiss and you may be best off with a clean install.
A permission error remains while logged in as root.
I tried adding a line to nano /etc/resolv.conf
got a permission denied prompt while saving.
I think I’ll be working on a full clean install.
Can anyone direct me to a good tutorial for openvpn that is tailored to OSMC?
Also, I would like to thank @yknivag @fzinken @sam_nazarko @joakim_s @ActionA and @jimblazin for helping me with this issue!
Yes, clean reinstall makes sense (and avoiding none official addons in the future).
For openvpn there are a couple of threads in the forum just search.