On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:59:28PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Thanks for your help. This solved the immediate problem ... > > Quoting Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > [ ... ] > > > > 1) You cannot remount / because other filesystems are mounted on it > > (I > > surmise this because you don't mention /usr or /home). > > > > 2) / is readonly either because you provided no options at all, or > > there are errors. > > > > Here's what I would do: > > > > 1) unb0rk your /etc/fstab. the "errors=remount-ro" needs to be > > there. > > It's now unbOrk-able, because I can't alter it. It's on a read-only > file system. > > But even so, I decided to continue ... > > > > 2) reboot. pause lilo or grub and boot with "linux emergency" > > (replace > > linux with the label of your default image) > > > > 3) enter the root passwd when prompted. > > > > 4) run "fsck /dev/sda2" > > I performed steps 2, 3, and 4, and even though I was on a > read-only file system, I figured I'd see what happens with the > fsck. When I ran it, it came back right away and said that > /dev/sda2 is clean. > > But hope springs eternal, so I'm continuing ... > > > 5) run "mount -n -w -o remount /dev/sda2 /" > > Now, it worked! I now have a proper writable filesystem, > and so I unbOrked /dev/fstab. > > > 6) type "exit" > > Did it ... and now, my system booted up just fine. > > So ... now that things are sort of back to normal, my question > is this: what caused the filesystem to become read-only to > begin with? Could it be hardware errors? The fact that the > fsck found no errors seems to point to this as a possible cause, > correct?
No, hardware errors would cause fs corruption I think. Probably the fact that the options field was blank caused the problem. In the future, make sure that field says "defaults" if you have nothing else to put in there :-) > At any rate, thanks again! Glad it worked for you. Random fs weirdness sucks. -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Profanity is the one language all programmers know best. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]