Recent dist-upgrade (in testing) broke /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh or /etc/fstab
I did a dist-upgrade in testing a few days ago, and it broke the way
that /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh remounts root.
What happened was that first of all it couldn't remount root ro, so
fsck failed; then it couldn't remount root rw, so / (being read-only)
broke everything else.
I "fixed" this by hand-hacking the relevant statements in checkroot.sh:
#if ! mount -n -o remount,ro $rootdev /
if ! mount -n -o remount,ro /
and later in the same script:
#mount -n -o remount,$rootopts,$rootmode $fstabroot /
mount -n -o remount,rw /
Does anyone know why this is happening? Best guess is that my
/etc/fstab is broken in some way. Current contents are:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda4 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
I have not changed this file to my knowledge.
Rich.
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