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archoriano

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Registered: 2009-03-28

Posts: 20

Cant boot, Read-only filesystem

Hi guys

Sry if this isnt the right section to post, but i didnt find any section in the forum where my problem fit.

So, today i was working on my laptop, and at the same time updating the system when the power went down. When the power came back Arch woudnt boot, a lot of Read-Only File system errors are trown, this are some examples:

Removing leftover files
failed to create file /var/log/wtmp: read-only file system
failed to create file /var/log/btmp: read-only file system
chmod(/tmp) failed: Read-only file system
chmod(/var/tmp) failed: Read-only file system

Saving dmesg log
impossible remove <</var/log/dmesg.log read-only>>:Read-only file system

I dont know what to do anymore, ive tried booting with a pen and "fsck root partition" didnt work, then i chrooted and pacman -Syu and it throw errors too.

I have school work to do and i need my computer ASAP

Plz Help

cfr

Member

From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,178

Re: Cant boot, Read-only filesystem

You can use pacman from the pen with the relevant options so that it updates the stuff on your root and also the database there. See the wiki or the manual page for details.

Otherwise, posting actual error messages is generally more likely to get useful responses than "it didn't work" or "it throw [sic.] errors".

EDIT: Does nobody use apostrophes these days?

Last edited by cfr (2012-12-24 03:05:59)

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