On 06/28/11 01:36, Zeb Packard wrote: > Hello all, I'm new so if I do anything rude please let me know so I can > adjust. > > I set up an openbsd file server using sftp, with a raid 1 > configuration and failover with Carp. My plan was to use rsync to sync > up the file sharing directories and I believe I got a little bit ahead > of myself when I thought I could rsync the /etc folder to streamline > the configuration of my servers. It's quite possible that one of my > systems was broken from an earlier attempt at reinstalling (which > synced a functional, yet broken configuration with a good system), at > the time I thought the raid automatically fixed the attempt at > reinstalling, but after looking at my fstab file I'm pretty certain > the raid hadn't been functioning properly for a while. (very stable > system though that fails so gracefully) Anyways, long story short, I > have a lot of work on that system, I'm not hoping to recover the > beast, I just want to copy my files off of it and transfer them to a > working system, but it is booting read-only with /etc/nologin in place > and I cannot figure out why. > > Please help. > > Zeb Packard > > Hi,
More details are required - like what type of raid? softraid, raidframe, or raid controller. A dmesg would help. Read-only root partition suggests your in single user mode. Single user mode is entered if the boot scrip fails, an error is being detected, for example the root partition fsck failed and needs you to run fsck manually. Until you get past single user mode the /etc/nologin will not be removed by the /etc/rc script. Look at the dmesg for errors, or any messages on the console. Overwriting file in /etc could cause all sorts of problems, rc scripts corrupted could leave you in single user mode for example. Regards Nigel Taylor
