Can't rewrite protected password entry

[Mohd Farouk Bin Baharim]

can help me.

I try to telnet our server but system give this message "Can't rewrite protected password entry for user root".

somebody know what this problem ?
For your Information we use HPUX 10.2

[Rajeev Shukla]

I think root "/" filesystem is full

[doug hosking]

A full disk seems like the most likely cause. It could also be a case of running out of inodes on the root file system (depending on which file system type you are using), or I/O errors on the root file system. A less likely cause would be running out of file descriptors due to improper settings of kernel tunables.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Assuming this is a fs full issue, uploading a potentially helpful script.

SEP

[Steven E. Protter]

If its really root / try this:

cd /
du -kx / | sort -rn | more

or

du -k | sort -n -r

SEP

[doug hosking]

Pretty much by definition this would be a failed attempt to rewrite something under /tcb, which is normally part of the root file system.