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I've currently booted into recovery mode, because I removed my sole user from admin :/

When I run adduser oadams admin, I get gpasswd: cannot lock /etc/group; try again later.

For what it's worth, ls /etc/ | grep "lock", returns only mtab.fuselock, so there's nothing to delete.

How can I get my user back in the admin group?

Oli
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Check that you are root

whoami

Check that the root partition is mounted read-write

cat /proc/mounts

If you see that your partition is mounted as ro (read-only), try remounting it as rw

mount -o remount,rw /
arrange
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