On 19/04/2008, mbm mbm@rlogin.net wrote:
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?
Okay: /var/log/messages - no errors relating to disk, very little apart from MARK and the odd line about printer ink and syslog restarting. Unfortunately as it boots ro it can't write the errors that are occuring to file.
I've pasted dmesg here http://pastebin.ca/989690
/etc/fstab says: # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/drive2 ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
I previously tried altering /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
to read /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 0
which made no difference, and then to /dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-rw 0
which made no difference and cause a small grumble which you will see in dmesg.
The entire root fs is mounted on one partition.
I'm currently running a command to reinstall all installed packages, as there do seem to be some missing files. (lost+found is empty).
Thanks!
Jenny