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Brian Everett Peterson • Edited

After sudo enter-chroot and attempting to run the mount command, I received:

mount: cannot remount /dev/mapper/vroot read-write, is write-protected

Can you advise?

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Akhil Naidu

I could not point out your issue clearly because of less information, but one thing is for certain, your user account was not given access. I have two suggestive solutions for you.

The first one is to do everything after having admin access rather than through sudo privileges, i.e, use sudo su and repeat the process without sudo.

If you don't want to use your root account, I would suggest you go through this alternative.
sudo disable_verity and reboot your machine sudo reboot and retry the process.

Have a look at what disable_verity does, because many of the users are facing problems in apps like Libre Documents and Microsoft Excel or other Doc related Applications.