On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:02:17 +0100 "Jenny Hopkins" hopkins.jenny@gmail.com allegedly wrote:
Hullo there List,
I powered down a debian etch server yesterday, for the first time in several months. When powered back up, it is mounting the hard drive read only for some reason, with no hostname.
The kernel is 2.6.18-5-amd64, if I boot into older kernels I get the same problem. I've run fsck several times and found no errors.
I remounted the drive rw and started trying to manually start services. I tried setting the hostname thusly:
Jenny
More details would help.
What does dmesg give? Are there any error reports in /var/log/messages relating to the disk? What have you got in your /etc/fstab? (if a mount point has options "errors=remount-ro" then it would explain the mount problem). Do you have separate mount points for /lib or other parts of the filesystem?
Mick
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