There is a prompt for root password for maintenance whenever I start Fedora. When I enter the root password I get the following message: sulogin: /root: change directory failed: Permission denied
The folder /root is the homedrive of root and this is the starting folder when logging in. It sounds like that the folder is not accessible. It could be that the folder /root does not exist or that the permissions or ownership is not right. These are the rights and owner of my /root, which are the defaults.
dr-xr-x---. 8 root root 4096 Feb 9 16:41 /root
If this is not right, then you could use these commands to change it to the default.
Change permissions: chmod 550 /root
Change owner: chown root:root /root
However, I suspect that the entire folder /root is not available, as it seems unlikely that you have changed permissions or ownership of this folder.
actually there is a prompt for root password at start up. So without logging in as root I can not proceed further. When I give root password, the above error is shown. So the maintenance process does not start at all and neither can I log in. It seems I have to run fsck manually. There may be some problem with the hard disk. Sometimes there is also the message for running fsck manually.
You need to fix your system. You shouldn't be dropped to an emergency shell at all.
Asked: 2014-02-09 06:10:07 -0600
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Last updated: Feb 09 '14
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