Re: [LinuxUsers] RMS' rider sheet

2011-10-26 Thread Chris Penn
I have never seen pets on a writer before. That is hilarious. It would be funny if everyone just started sending him parrots. Chris... On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. wrote: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public/2011-October/007647.html >

[LinuxUsers] RMS' rider sheet

2011-10-26 Thread Roger E. Rustad, Jr.
https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/pipermail/developers-public/2011-October/007647.html "DON'T buy a parrot figuring that it will be a fun surprise for me. To acquire a parrot is a major decision: it is likely to outlive you. If you don't know how to treat the parrot, it could be emotionally

Re: [LinuxUsers] LUG Meeting tonight - October 26, 2011

2011-10-26 Thread Trevor Benedict
Sorry, wont make it tonight. Im not going to get out of work till 8 or so. - Trevor On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:06 PM, David Kaiser wrote: > Meeting this Wednesday, October 26th > > Panera Bread > 3560 Riverside Plz > Riverside, CA 92506 > > 7PM - 9PM PST >

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread Ann
Jeff, thanks for the ideas. I think that is what we will do. The customer did the server configuration as he wanted the experience with linux. So we will probably have him configure another server, then we can load up the application on the new server. Then he can play with the old, replace dr

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread Jeff Lasman
On Wednesday, October 26, 2011 11:38:27 AM Ann wrote: > Another last thought. As there is nothing really to recover, we could > reconfigure the server and then just reinstall the application. Do it. Sorry I didn't have time to check this list today until now. I manage servers for a living. L

[LinuxUsers] LUG Meeting tonight - October 26, 2011

2011-10-26 Thread David Kaiser
Meeting this Wednesday, October 26th Panera Bread 3560 Riverside Plz Riverside, CA 92506 7PM - 9PM PST ___ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread Ann
Another last thought. As there is nothing really to recover, we could reconfigure the server and then just reinstall the application. Ann David Kaiser wrote: > Can you write to other directories under /var? Is it this particular one? > > Well, if you cannot write something as root... I guess yo

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread Ann
Sorry, but forgot to add, however I can still sign on to the application and it is running. However, could be that the application is loaded at tomcat start? All the data being displayed is coming off their iSeries. thanks Ann David Kaiser wrote: > Can you write to other directories under /var

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread Ann
Here is another weird thing, if I do ls -l it always shows 0 So I can change to another directory, but when I try ls -l get 0 instead of the file list. While earlier today I would get a file list. Sure is acting strange. Ann David Kaiser wrote: > Can you write to other directories under /va

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread Ann
David, Look what I get with fsck: fsck.ext3: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to re-open /dev/sda1 e2fsck: io manager magic bad! Could I extrapolate that to mean I got a disk problem? thanks Ann David Kaiser wrote: > Can you write to other directories under /var? Is it this particu

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread David Kaiser
Can you write to other directories under /var? Is it this particular one? Well, if you cannot write something as root... I guess you'd want to start with basic filesystem checks. fsck, have it scan the inodes for inconsistencies, etc. I'm not sure I'm the best to help provide advice on where to

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread Ann
Sorry, did not mention, reboot did not solve the problem. So I am thinking maybe the problem is some errors, but not sure where to go from here. David, the server is not written to by an services, it just runs a couple applications that are used for inquiry. Any writing is done in our applicati

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system' - how to check for errors during mount

2011-10-26 Thread Ann
Was just taking a look again at the mount info /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) root@TCSL-RANDR2:~# df -h /var FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 17G 6.8G 8.6G 44% / I wonder if there are some errors that are causing it to remount as r

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread Ann
Adam, thanks, I am at 44% Ann Adam Flaig wrote: > Did you fill the file system? A full file system can cause it to go > read only. > > df -h /var > > will show you what var is doing. > > df -h > > will show you all file systems on your server. > > > > Adam Flaig > /"Ciggarettes are a lot like h

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread David Kaiser
Now that it has been rebooted, are you still unable to create the directory or write to it's parent? In other words, has the issue been resolved by rebooting? >From that mount command output, it appears that while /var/run and /var/lock are using tmpfs in their own mount path, the prime /var dire

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread Ann
David, Well they brought the server back up. Here is the result of the mount command /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) /sys on /sys type sysfs (rw) varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw) varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw) devpt

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread Ann
thanks for the input, the server just went down and I am not physically there. As soon as it comes back up I will check thanks Ann Michael Gorman wrote: > > Sounds like the volume is mounted read on based on the error feed > back. Have you checked the fstab file which contains all the mounting >

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread Ann
thanks for the input, the server just went down and I am not physically there. As soon as it comes back up I will check thanks Ann David Kaiser wrote: > It's hard to imagine, but... is the /var filesystem mounted readonly? > The error doesn't look like directory permissions, but filesystem issue

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread Adam Flaig
Did you fill the file system? A full file system can cause it to go read only. df -h /var will show you what var is doing. df -h will show you all file systems on your server. Adam Flaig *"Ciggarettes are a lot like hamsters, Perfectly harmless untill you put one in your mouth and light it

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread David Kaiser
It's hard to imagine, but... is the /var filesystem mounted readonly? The error doesn't look like directory permissions, but filesystem issues. run the 'mount' command and inspect any filesystems with a portion of '/var/' in the mountpath, and/or do not contain 'rw' in the mount options. On 10

Re: [LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Gorman
Sounds like the volume is mounted read on based on the error feed back. Have you checked the fstab file which contains all the mounting configurations and make sure its not mounting with the ro option? On Oct 26, 2011 9:43 AM, "Ann" wrote: > I have a customer with an ubuntu linux server. Last t

[LinuxUsers] Need some guidance on "cannot create directory.....Read-only file system'

2011-10-26 Thread Ann
I have a customer with an ubuntu linux server. Last time I made any changes for him was in July. Now when I go to copy anything to the server I get the following: cp: cannot create directory `/var/lib/tomcat5/backups/Infoportal_test_20111026_0936': Read-only file system It looks like something