Hello, I could still reproduce this issue with alpha3 with out running any test suite as shuch, but by just updgrading the os using 'apt-get dist- upgrade' and reboot will make the guest file system read-only.
uname -r 3.13.0-12-generic user@spartan:~$ mount /dev/vda2 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw) none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755) none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880) none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755) none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw) systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd) mount: warning: /etc/mtab is not writable (e.g. read-only filesystem). It's possible that information reported by mount(8) is not up to date. For actual information about system mount points check the /proc/mounts file. few error messages after reboot in dmesg logs: ient.action" pid=580 comm="apparmor_parser" [ 10.271893] init: dmesg main process (604) terminated with status 7 [ 10.462209] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (671) terminated with status 1 [ 107.678395] random: nonblocking pool is initialized [ 305.126848] EXT4-fs (vda2): error count: 48 [ 305.126859] EXT4-fs (vda2): initial error at 1393635308: htree_dirblock_to_tree:920: inode 4590544: block 18359106 [ 305.126865] EXT4-fs (vda2): last error at 1393825896: ext4_remount:4813: inode 4590473: block 18359087 Please have a look, and let me know if you need more details Thanks -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1267712 Title: ubuntu guest's file system becoming read only Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: 9.3.189.114 (root/.pasroot) (Host Machine) Run the follwoing command to go to the guest victim machine from (/var/lib/libvirt/images/jagan/new_ubuntu_alpha1) qemu-system-ppc64 -enable-kvm -M pseries -cpu POWER8 -smp 1 -m 10G -nographic -nodefaults -monitor stdio -serial pty -append "root=/dev/sda" -kernel trusty-server-cloudimg-ppc64el-vmlinuz-generic -device spapr-vscsi -device spapr- vlan,netdev=net0,mac=6c:ae:8b:69:16:15 -netdev bridge,br=virbr0,id=net0 -drive file=trusty-server-cloudimg- ppc64el.img.qcow2 after this command you will get the screen number. example: QEMU 1.6.0 monitor - type 'help' for more information (qemu) char device redirected to /dev/pts/16 (label serial0) Then open another host session and execute the below command # screen /dev/pts/16 (qemu) Here the screen number is /dev/pts/16 -->>Then you will get a blank screen so press ENTER key. The guest machine login: ubuntu/passw0rd Then do --->sudo -i Environment: =========== Host: Power8 Guest : ubuntu hosted on Power8 The issue: ====== After logging into the guest some times it becomes read - only file system. Description: =========== Here i am not able to create directory or a file. root@ubuntu:/opt/ltp# cat /etc/issue Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch) \n \l=====================>>ubuntu guest root@ubuntu:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 6c:ae:8b:69:16:15 inet addr:192.168.122.131 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::6eae:8bff:fe69:1615/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:4 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:6764 (6.7 KB) TX bytes:3914 (3.9 KB) Interrupt:22 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) root@ubuntu:/opt/ltp# ./runltp -f timers -p -l timers.log -o timers.out cat: /opt/ltp/Version: No such file or directory INFO: creating /opt/ltp/results directory mktemp: failed to create directory via template â/tmp/ltp-XXXXXXXXXXâ: Read-only file system======>>error FATAL: Unable to make temporary directory: root@ubuntu:/opt/ltp# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda 51573372 1303052 47632556 3% / none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup devtmpfs 5161908 296 5161612 1% /dev none 1032440 184 1032256 1% /run none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock none 5162192 0 5162192 0% /run/shm none 102400 0 102400 0% /run/user root@ubuntu:/opt/ltp# mkdir -m 777 jagan mkdir: cannot create directory âjaganâ: Read-only file system========>>error root@ubuntu:/opt/ltp# touch jagan touch: cannot touch âjaganâ: Read-only file system============>>error To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1267712/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp