File system mounted read only?
I have the following problem on a Intel PC Debian system I maintain:
For the second time the file system got mounted read only for an
unknown reason. The first time only my personal mailbox file
(/var/spool/mail/me) got corrupted as far as I could see. The second
time, after the reboot fsck.ext2 and ifconfig (and probably others)
didn't work properly anymore:
fsck.ext2 did its job, but then terminated with a Segmentation
fault. And ifconfig gave a Segmentation fault right at the
beginning. Maybe one of the librarys libc or ld-linux got corrupted?
The problem now was, that the system would only boot into single user
mode, since fsck.ext2 on startup ended with the Segmentation
fault. Since I was not sure what was corrupted really, I decided to
re-install the system from scratch (reminded me of my MS Windows days
by the way ;-) I did a bad block check on the partition in question,
but this yielded no error.
I have no idea what could have caused these two incidents, since after
the file system has been remounted read only there was no possibility
for the system to log anything.
What could have caused it? Bad harddisk, or could the problem be
elsewhere? Is there a way to get more debugging information in case it
should happen again?
Any comment welcome!
Stef
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