Hi, I have been getting some odd behavior from my home debian linux machine lately. Consider the following...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo testing1234 >> junk.text -bash: junk.text: Read-only file system [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll junk.text -rw-r--r-- 1 billj 79438 Oct 24 21:50 junk.text ...the above I consider very odd behavior. Just for grins, what happens when I try this... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ chmod u+w junk.text chmod: changing permissions of `junk.text': Read-only file system [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ...Hrm....Well, I searched google groups and am pretty bamboozled (because fixes appear to involve scary commands such as "fsck" and "mount" about which I know nearly nothing). They chatter in google groups seems to further suggest hard drive issues. Uh oh. This seems to be the root of other new problems: E.g. Firefox is complaining. And gunziping some archived files is impossible. When I try these things, I get the same error, i.e. "Read-only file system". I get a nice close shave with Occum's Razor so am I remiss in assuming this is all caused by the same problem? Might these odd behaviors be related to sudden downtime freeze ups I have had recently? Here is what happened: My linux box froze (and, Dear Windows fans, this is something that happens about 1 time per decade with me). I power cycled and it appeared to rebooted happily (to my ignorant eyes at least). Did I try to write anything immediately after this reboot? I dunno. I should also add that over the summer I had some signs of disk failure in the making. In fact I emailed siglinux about them. This was when I was budget cutting and my apt was warmer than usual. People (off this list) said disks are very sensitive to temp. When I lowered my room temp, failure ceased. So, I assumed all was well enough. I've been getting that scary sound again (kind of like a relay that keeps turning on an off...sometimes once in isolation, sometimes 5-20 times in rapid succession) tho maybe not as often/intensely. Has my apt temp been creeping up again? Maybe. In response I've reverted to keeping my apt cooler still. Has that sound happened less often? I think so. So, I am going to suspect that I need: (1) a new hard drive...it is about to fail permanently. (2) until (1) more frequent backups to CD Rom. (3) a fix so that my file system is no longer read only. I can take care of (1) and (2) but can someone offer guidance on (3)? chmod does not seem to fix things. Bill _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://machito.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
