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cogo

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From: no_NO

Registered: 2006-01-19

Posts: 56

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System starts in read only mode [FIXED]

I am not sure how to explain this problem, but I will give it a try.

An hour ago i rebooted my laptop to get into my windows partition, and I saw some errors during reboot that I have not seen before. Therefore I booted into arch again to see what the errors were.

This time the system complains about the mtab file and that it cannot be written to.

I took a peek in /etc/rc.sysinit and saw:

stat_busy "Mounting Local Filesystems"
/bin/mount -n -o remount,rw /
/bin/rm -f /etc/mtab*
/bin/mount -o remount,rw /
...
...

I believe the last line generates the first error message during boot. After I have logged in as root, I try to manually make /etc/mtab, but I get "permission denied". I am allowed to make other files in /etc and I can for instance edit fstab and so on.

Does anyone know what the hell just happened here? I did not do any updates or irregular stuff before the reboot that started this mess...

This might not be a suitable problem for the "newbie corner" forum, but I kinda feel like a newbie right now.

cogo

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From: no_NO

Registered: 2006-01-19

Posts: 56

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Re: System starts in read only mode [FIXED]

I booted using the archlinux cd, did a reiserfsck --rebuild-tree /dev/hda3 and the problems vanished.