Failed to overwrite statefile "Read only file-system"
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Failed to overwrite statefile "Read only file-system"
/ is mounted as Read-only.
I created a Symbolic link for ifstate from /etc/network/run to /var/run (/var/run is mounted as tmpfs) and I can write to and from the file perfectly fine, but when trying to start the network I get "Failed to overwrite statefile Read only file-system". I double checked permissions to see if that was the problem, but it does not appear to be.
The default user account created in Debian doesn't have any problem writing to it. Now it can't write in the directory /etc/networking/run but writing directly to the file /etc/networking/run/ifstate works fine.
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