root fs became read-only

[Derek Broughton]

Asif Iqbal wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Asif Iqbal <vadud3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> My root fs became readonly as shown in dmesg
>> (http://pastebin.com/f43f31765)
>>
>> I tried to remount as read/write and failed
>>
>> # mount -o remount,rw /
>> [389436.605649] ext3_abort called.
>> [389436.643091] EXT3-fs error (device dm-1): ext3_remount: Abort forced
>> [by user
>> mount: block dev[389436.729483] ext3_abort called.
>> ice /dev/mapper/[389436.783286] EXT3-fs error (device dm-1):
>> ext3_remount: nvidia_eeffhbef1Abort forced by user is write-protec
>> ted, mounting read-only
>>
>> Do I need to reboot?
> 
> 2 reboot and 2 fsck fixed it

Precisely - it's the fsck you needed.  Keep an eye on the drive - it may be 
that it just got shutdown improperly (system powered off, perhaps), but it 
can also mean that you're getting disk errors.
-- 
derek