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Re: root fs becomes ro after sleep!



On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 12:12:34PM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Tom Rini wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 11:43:16AM -0700, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > 
> > > I experience a weird symptom the other day.  After waking up my TiBook
> > > from sleep (running 2.4.8pre4-ben0) I noticed that the root file system
> > > was suddenly mounted read-only.   I rebooted and everything was fine.
> > 
> > Can you check /var/log/messages and /var/log/kern.log? It sounds like
> > when you woke the machine up the fs was 'bad' and got mounted read-only.
> > When you booted up again did it fsck?
> 
> Yes, it did fsck, and I was puzzled since it shut down cleanly.  I looked
> in kern.log, and the only thing I noticed was 

Odd.  Both of those imply that the kernel found the FS to be broken
somehow and remounted it read-only to prevent further damage.

> but that seems to happen on every wake up, not just the one where I
> noticed the problem...  messages seemed to have the same messages that
> kern.log did, except the VFS message wasn't present.  ditto syslog, except
> the VFS message was there as well as messages from pmud.  But sadly
> nothing suggestive like "remounting ro" or anything like that...

Very odd...  If this somehow happens again, do a 'dmesg' and see if
it tells you anything.

-- 
Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/



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