Can't start X, I am having a read-only filesystem problem.

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 4:38 pm, OOzy Pal wrote:
> I Can't start X, I am having a read-only filesystem problem.

If you are having a read-only filesystem problem, then why are you worrying 
about X11?  Even if you get it running, you won't be able to *do* anything 
with your computer until you fix this.

I can't remember how Kubuntu handles not having a root account, etc.  You 
can't exactly "enter root password for maintenance" when there is no root 
password.  As such, the only sure thing I can suggest is booting off a live 
CD, and running fsck on any affected partitions from there.  If your 
read-only filesystem is on /dev/hdb6 then run

	fsck -y /dev/hdb6

to tell it to answer yes to every question, and go ahead and fix everything 
the best it can manage.

You'll probably lose some data.  This kind of thing usually means you did not 
shut down your system properly, you did attempt to shut down properly, but it 
failed, or else your hard drive is thinking about crashing.

-- 
D. Michael McIntyre