On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 02:53:20AM +0100, Alexander List wrote: > Hi, > > I've got slink running, just tried an upgrade with apt and encountered the > following weird behaviour: > > linux:/home/alex# mount > /dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > proc on /proc type proc (rw) > /dev/hda5 on /home type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > /dev/hda6 on /usr type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > /dev/hda7 on /var type ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
Notice the "remount-ro". Dpkg is triggering some sort of problem on your /usr partition, which is causing the kernel to remount it read only. I suggest running fsck on that drive (while it is mounted read-only). Ben