From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dukecmmtar01.coxmail.com (dukecmmtar01.coxmail.com [68.99.120.48]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78BED10BC0 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:30:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.100] (really [70.166.17.50]) by dukecmmtar01.coxmail.com (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20080817093040.XIMN8636.dukecmmtar01.coxmail.com@[192.168.0.100]> for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:30:40 -0400 Message-ID: <48A7EFB3.7060407@baechler.net> Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 02:30:27 -0700 From: Tony Baechler User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: root fs has suddenly became read only References: <001c01c8ffbb$2dff6a60$4200a8c0@tdsportable> In-Reply-To: <001c01c8ffbb$2dff6a60$4200a8c0@tdsportable> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 09:30:39 -0000 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?