[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora Core system Read Only
Terry Henderson
trryhend at gmail.com
Thu Jan 25 14:58:55 CST 2007
It says it is mounted rw in the output of command "mount" but you
still cannot write to the filesystem., and you cannot force remount as
read-write [mount / -o remount,rw]
See captured info below:
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Script started on Thu 25 Jan 2007 09:16:42 AM CST
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 19251804 7624620 10649228 42% /
/dev/hda1 101086 20180 75687 22% /boot
none 127992 0 127992 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb1 19541504 4002080 15539424 21% /mnt/oldComputer
[root at localhost root]# less[K[K[K[Kcate [K[K /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/oldComputer vfat rw,defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
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Part of dmesg:
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Script started on Thu 25 Jan 2007 09:24:07 AM CST
eth0: KTI ET32P2 found at 0xd000, IRQ 10, 00:40:F6:14:94:79.
journal_bmap_R9c46d717: journal block not found at offset 1036 on ide0(3,2)
Aborting journal on device ide0(3,2).
ext3_abort called.
EXT3-fs abort (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_journal_start: Detected aborted journal
Remounting filesystem read-only
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus C84
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 990865 512-byte hdwr sectors (507 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: sda1
[root at localhost root]#
Script done on Thu 25 Jan 2007 09:24:38 AM CST
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On 1/24/07, Terry Henderson <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/24/07, Wayne Walker <wwalker at bybent.com> wrote:
> > mount -o remount,rw /
> >
>
> Yes, I'm wondering why I didn't try that, but going back over there
> tomorrow, will see what I can do. But, I'm really curious about why
> it's happening in the first place.
>
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 01:35:42PM -0600, Terry Henderson wrote:
> > > 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:
> > > ==============================================
> > > 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
> > > =========================================
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
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> >
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