From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from spaceymail-a6.g.dreamhost.com (lax-green-bigip-5.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E8210BD9 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:27:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tdsportable (75-171-197-134.hlrn.qwest.net [75.171.197.134]) by spaceymail-a6.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E65EACA7C8 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <002601c9006c$e6e4c4b0$4200a8c0@tdsportable> From: "Tyler Littlefield" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <001c01c8ffbb$2dff6a60$4200a8c0@tdsportable> <48A7EFB3.7060407@baechler.net> Subject: Re: root fs has suddenly became read only Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:26:47 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.10 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:27:32 -0000 hello, I ran an fsck and the problem is solved. :) Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ Visit TDS for quality software and website production http://tysdomain.com visit the piratecafe for programming related resources: http://piratecafe.net msn: tyler@tysdomain.com skype: st8amnd127 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Baechler" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 3:30 AM Subject: Re: root fs has suddenly became read only > Tyler Littlefield wrote: >> I was wondering if anyone had any ideas. everything under / is now >> read-only. >> > > > > Hi, > > Can you give more details? What distro are you using? What did you do > right before that happened? Were there any messages in any logs like > syslog or dmesg? Are you booting from a live CD which mounts your drives > as ro? Have you ran fsck or had file system errors lately? Did your > computer lock up and not shut down properly? This is doubtful, but are > you using the ext2 filesystem without journaling? Is there an error in > your boot scripts that prevents it from switching to mounting RW? > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ NOD32 3361 (20080816) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >