read-only file system sporratic

[Trent Lloyd]

Jim,

This probably means that you have an error on your filesytem.

You can force ubuntu to check your filesystem for errors on next boot by
running the following command:
	sudo touch /forcefsck

After doing this, reboot, and it should find and hopefully repair any
errors on your filesystem.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Trent

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 12:48 -0600, Jim Pelton wrote:
> Hello all! Here's an interesting one for ya. Twice now I have been 
> working away fine, music playing, network humming along...things are great.
> 
> Then I will try to start firefox, emacs, or send an email with 
> Thunderbird, save document with OOWriter, do anything that writes to the 
> disk /dev/hdb (/dev/hdb1 to be exact with the partition number) and I 
> get an error message. If the program is such that it out puts the error 
> to an XTerm it usualy reads something to the tune of "IO Error could not 
> write to disk: read-only file system." The problem persists until I 
> force a reboot.
> 
> The reboot must be forced by shutting down the system because during the 
> shutdown the machine freezes with error after error of "EXT3-fs ... ... 
> read-only file system" or something of that nature. Now get this, when I 
> start the computer up next time, it does it's BIOS system start-up 
> stuff, then imideatly reports that "Hard Drive 1 is opporating outside 
> of normal parameters...replace the drive...yada yada."
> 
> This happened this morning after it had been working fine for two or 
> three days following some fixes done by fsck. It sounded like another 
> fan started up, the HD started grinding, then the fan noise stopped and 
> the errors came. I rebooted (by forcing a shutdown) and the computer 
> came up fine this time, no erros at bootup, and no problems for several 
> hours since.
> 
> Any suggestions? Hardware or software problem? Are there any tests I 
> could run?
> 
> Oh /dev/hdb is the startup disk with usr directories and /boot. "touch 
> testfile" does not work, even as root, however if I connect to the mount 
> point of /dev/hda1 I can read/write just fine.
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 
> Jim
> 
-- 
Trent Lloyd <lathiat at bur.st>
Bur.st Networking Inc.