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on Wed, 4 Jan 2006 19:06:46 -0800 Karsten M. Self"
(kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
> For mysterious reasons a Dual-boot (Windows/Linux) Toshiba 5105-s901
> running Debian/GNU 3.1 Sarge 2.6.8 (with updates) suddenly fails to
> mount read-write the root partition during boot.
This can indicate a problem with the filesystem is throwing errors.
Your root filesystem is typically mounted with an 'errors=remount-ro'
option, meaning the drive is remounted read-only if an error occurs.
thanks. problem solved. mea culpa.
after digging a little further, i discovered that *someone* (myself
probably) had inadvertently set the mount point for swap in the fstab
as /, instead of none. i reset the mount point and all was well, so
while the fstab file had not changed since the new drive install, it
was not very sane. however, that the system would have worked for a
number of months, in spite of the error, baffles me. i suppose it is
possible that autofs mounted / in spite of a broken fstab.
FYI: a couple of strange--- and rather obvious to see--- things happen
when one makes this error. for the sake of posterity i'll enumerate
them here:
output from df and mount utilities in single-user mode fail to
actually list any file systems other than memory file systems like
/proc.
dmesg does appear to log even when unable to write to the root
partition. fancy that.
Watch your boot process carefully.
thanks. booting a number of times helped me debug the problem. and
helped me identify that the root partition was not, in fact, a
journaled partition. KNOPPIX and tune2fs helped rectify that problem as
well.
Triple-check your autofs config. If that's the change, try disabling
it
and seeing if the problem disappears.
i apt-get removed autofs just to see... and it had no apparent impact.
have a nice day.yad
jdpf
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