Harry Rickards wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/05/09 20:17, Kris Douglas wrote: > >> Hello, I'm updating an Ubuntu machine to 8.10 and then 9, but during >> the update, update-manager crashed with an IOError (number 30) the >> filesystem became read only, the whole system is now read only, I >> can't create a folder anywhere, as root or as a normal user... >> >> Any ideas? >> >> > Try pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 and logging in. Then type 'sudo remount -n -o > remount,rw /' and press enter. After this has finished press Ctrl-Alt-F7 > and the disk should be read-write. Alternatively reboot. > > - -- > Many thanks > Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) > I'd also suggest running a file system check on there just to make sure everything is okay. If you have anything important on there it might also be a good idea to back it up to a USB stick or external hard drive just in case.
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