I was teaching a friend how to root a box by adding:
init=/bin/bash
to the kernel line in grub, and then wanted to show him how to install some apps from the command line. I had never done this with LVM partitions, and was surprised when I got the following error:
File based locking initialization failed
Doh! I forgot to remount root read/write:
mount -o remount,rw /
Finally, I was able to
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