Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-24 Thread lee
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 03:39:42AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-24 02:05, lee wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:30:58AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 2009-07-24 01:08, lee wrote: Check /boot/grub/menu list; I think that's where the kernel is being told to mount the root-fs

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-24 02:05, lee wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:30:58AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-24 01:08, lee wrote: Check /boot/grub/menu list; I think that's where the kernel is being told to mount the root-fs read-only: That's what I eventually did, earlier this evening. Did it wo

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-24 Thread lee
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 01:30:58AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-07-24 01:08, lee wrote: >> Check /boot/grub/menu list; I think that's where the kernel is being >> told to mount the root-fs read-only: > > That's what I eventually did, earlier this evening. Did it work? > But... the grub fil

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-24 01:08, lee wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:58:32AM -0400, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. Check /boot/grub/menu list; I think that'

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread lee
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:58:32AM -0400, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which > is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. Check /boot/grub/menu list; I think that's where the kernel is being told

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-23 18:24, s. keeling wrote: : "s. keeling" wrote: : boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants to, but

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2009-07-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-23 17:19, Chris Jones wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:33:02PM EDT, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: Chris Jones wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:58:32AM EDT, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which is part of /)

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread s. keeling
: > "s. keeling" wrote: > > : > > > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to > > > /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just > > > after S55something. > > > > > > (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants > > > to, but thi

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 02:33:02PM EDT, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:58:32AM EDT, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > > > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var > > > (which is part of /) and thus the boot process f

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread ron.l.johnson
"s. keeling" wrote: > : > > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to > > /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just > > after S55something. > > > > (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants > > to, but things fly by so fast t

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread ron.l.johnson
Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:58:32AM EDT, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which > > is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. > > > > (No, it doesn't drop me into single-u

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread ron.l.johnson
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var > > (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after > > S55something. > > Just to exclude the obvious: > what's the output of 'df' from the li

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread s. keeling
: > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to > /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just > after S55something. > > (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants > to, but things fly by so fast that I can't see.) > > Thanks >

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Check file permissions on /etc/init.d scripts. I just had a system I upgraded where several critical init.d scripts lost the executable flag. This caused the symptom described, at the script that remounts root as rw was affected. Pat -- Patrick Ouellette p...@flying-gecko.net

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:58:32AM EDT, ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which > is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. > > (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants to, bu

Re: Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: > boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var > (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after > S55something. Just to exclude the obvious: what's the output of 'df' from the liv

Live CD says all fs clean, but...

2009-07-23 Thread ron.l.johnson
boot procedure still mounts / as RO, and so "it" can't write to /var (which is part of /) and thus the boot process freezes just after S55something. (No, it doesn't drop me into single-user mode. I think it wants to, but things fly by so fast that I can't see.) Thanks P.S. - Yes, I see the ir