File system locked on upgrade

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jul 16 22:02:32 UTC 2009


On 07/16/2009 02:07 PM, David S Angulo wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:05 PM, NoOp<glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> This might help:
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FilePermissions
> 
> 
> This link just talks about file permissions.  I'm sorry, but I don't
> understand how that pertains to this problem.  What are you suggesting
> I do?

Well, I was hoping that you'd give it a read & also eventually end up at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab. Wasn't meant otherwise, just
hoped it would help if you need to check your file status/permission(s).
/dev/sda3 is a file after all & permission should look something like this:

$ ls -l /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-07-16 08:52 /dev/sda1

> 
> 
>>
>> However, I'd first follow Derek's advise & run fsck. Boot to recovery
>> mode & run from the menu.
>>
> 
> 
> Thanks. I ran fsck.  No errors.  Drive still read-only on reboot.
> 

- Again in recovery, try dpkg to see if any of the update packages borked.
- fstab is doing as instructed because there is an error. Check to make
sure that the UUID didn't get messed up in the process:
$ sudo blkid
  or
# blkid
and compare that to see if it matches that of your fstab.
Check /var/log/dpkg.log to see what the upgrades were.
/var/log/syslog.0 should give some indication of errors, as should
/var/log/dmesg.0.





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