Thibaut Ok, how did you mount it rw, and was it stable, it is a machine I was a week away from putting on the production floor. James
-----Original Message----- From: Thibaut VARENE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 July 2004 17:19 To: James Morris Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Disaster strikes Le 13 juil. 04, à 18:05, James Morris a écrit : > Hi All > I have been running my RP5430 without a hitch for nearly a month, I > wanted > to start adding services so ran apt-get dist-upgrade. > The box has come up with the root FS read only. > This is causing me a few problems (as you may guess). > I have had a look at the fstab file and saw that it is set to mount ro > on > errors, problem is I can't spot the errors, and wouldn't be able to do > much > with an ro filesystem anyway. > below is the output from the GSP when booting. > All help appreciated. > James you hit the same problem that I had here on unstable a while ago, and that seems to have gone into sarge as well. I have no idea what's wrong, but there's definitely a bug somewhere with either fsck or the init scripts. fsck claims that the file is not mounted ro, which is absolutely wrong since it actually _is_, and you have to remount it rw to be able to use the box... Thibaut VARENE The PA/Linux ESIEE Team http://www.pateam.org/