Just installed Arch, can't perform tasks like useradd/pacman [Solved]

Followed the Beginner's Guide step by step. I'm now on the 'Extra'. However I'm running into problems doing anything. The first thing I tried to do was change user password. I got 'Authentication token lock busy'. Tried to add user and got 'cannot lock /etc/passwd/'
I figured out that I could go back into the initial setup, remount the drives, and chroot and then change password/add user. Then - as the guide says- I unmounted them and rebooted.
Now I can't install sudo. I get 'failed to innit transaction: unable to lock database' 'could not lock database: read only file system'
my /etc/fstab says sda1 rw which I thought meant that it was write-able
I can't do pacman -Syy for the same reasons, however I can do it when I chroot and mount from the setup
I followed the Beginners' Guide line by line I believe. But somewhere after unmount and reboot, it quits working.
Last edited by mmat (2012-10-18 06:19:52)

DSpider wrote:
Hi, and welcome to the forum.
The title is a bit misleading. Is the root read-only, or is useradd/pacman the problem (which both are in the "Install" section, not "Extra") ?
I'm sorry. This is my very first time ever using linux, so I don't fully get what you're saying about read only root.. I'm not sure what the problem is. I can and did useradd/pacman when I was installing. I finished the install section. I cannot now do the first step on extra.
DSpider wrote:You didn't remove "ro" from syslinux.cfg, did you? Or do you use GRUB?
I used GRUB because the guide made it sound better.
DSpider wrote:Post your fstab.
I installed it in VirtualBox. Not sure if that matters.
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