[OT] Preload hoses my system

[Dr. Hawkins]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 7:44 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/17/2013 04:30 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
>>
>> Can you get to the command line on that system, and do this:
>> sudo apt-get remove preload

> That would be lovely if I could.
> Especially as that is the most obvious thing to do :P
> trying "drop to root shell prompt"

> no joy
>
> Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
> Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/

try booting into single user,  then "mount -a", at which point most
low-level things should be functional
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