[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora Core system Read Only

[Terry Henderson]

A friend's computer has Core1 and had filesystem errors this morning.  He ran:
   fsck -y /dev/hda2
and seemed to have fixed it, BUT:  Now it mounts the whole filesystem
read-only and so it's impossible to do anything,much at all with it.
I went over to look at it, (didn't have much time there, but):
I found that I could mount my thunbdrive rw, so I did, and quickly
captured some info that might give us some clues:
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Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             19251804   7624604  10649244  42% /
/dev/hda1               101086     20180     75687  22% /boot
none                    127992         0    127992   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb1             19541504   4002080  15539424  21% /mnt/oldComputer

Disk /dev/sda: 507 MB, 507322880 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 983 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1             1       983    495313+   6  FAT16

Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20404101120 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2480 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2            14      2448  19559137+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3          2449      2480    257040   82  Linux swap

Disk /dev/hdb: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *         1      2434  19551073+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
total 0
[root at localhost root]# ls -l /var/lock/subystem
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 apmd
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 iptables
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 kudzu
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 netfs
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 network
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 nfslock
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 portmap
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 random
-rw-------  1 root root 0 Jan 24 10:24 syslog
[root at localhost root]# mount
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /mnt/oldComputer type vfat (rw)
Script started on Wed 24 Jan 2007 10:46:33 AM CST
[root at localhost root]# touch testfile
touch: cannot touch `testfile': Read-only file system
[root at localhost root]# touch /home/dell/testfile
touch: cannot touch `/home/dell/testfile': Read-only file system
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Also;  I saw something during boot up that indicated that ext3
journaling was failing, or... well, I think that may be because the
filesystem is being mounted read-only.  So, does anyone have a clue as
to what may have happened, and / or, what to do about it?