HELP!!!!!

[Doug]

On 11/21/2010 08:08 PM, Jason E. High wrote:
> On 11/21/2010 07:57 PM, Bill vance wrote:
>> Howdy folks;
>>
>> Having a few minor problems. I saw something yesterday that looked like it might
>> work on the list, so I typed in:
>>
>>     aptitrude update
>>     aptitude safe-upgrade
>>
>> thinking that it hjad been long enough that various bug fixes etc.,
>> would have been
>> implemented.  While that seems to be the case with a couple things, some things
>> still didn't seem to want to install corectly.
>>
>> Now however, kde is sending me numerous popup messages saying that various
>> of its config files are not writable.  trying, "chmod a+rwxrwxrwx
>> .kde/config/*", didn't work, and returned a message that said It was
>> a, "readonly file system".
>>
>> Apparently something did that to all my hard drives, so now I have to
>> post from the Public Library.  The last time anything like this
>> happened, I wound up losing a
>> bunch of stuff for having to re-install the whole shebang.
>>
>> So how do I cure my drives of this unasked for disease?
>>
>> Bill
>>
> Check /etc/fstab to see if it's mounting your filesystem as read-only.
>
If you can't boot into the system, start a live disk and work from there.
--doug

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