Karsten M. Self wrote:
This can indicate a problem with the filesystem is throwing errors. Your root filesystem is typically mounted with an 'errors=remount-ro' option, meaning the drive is remounted read-only if an error occurs.
This particular option is at the moment causing me considerable grief. And I really wonder why it needs to be there.
When last week I installed "Sarge" the defaults option got left out of the root directory mount line in the fstab. I edited fstab to add it, so that that line read as follows:
/dev/mapper/SOL-root ext3 drfaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro / 0 1Because defaults was mispelled, the root directory has been locked ever since, making the machine unuseable.
I tried various ways of solving this problem short of a complete reinstallation, including doing a Knoppix live installation, but so far have not found one. (For details of what I did, see my post of a few minutes ago entitled "Re: Most directories locked read-only: how to unlock them?"
This read only option for the root directory strikes me as very dangerous because it can turn a typographical error into a major catastrophe.
Regards, -- Ken Heard