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#1 2009-04-04 03:09:41

pharcyde
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Configs are not saving.

When I edit a configuration file, whatever it may be does not save. For example: If I 'sudo vim /boot/grub/menu.lst' make changes and save, then re-open it goes back to default. This happens with every text file/editor.  /boot/grub/menu.lst is directed to the wrong kernel and I have to manually change it at boot everytime because the file will not save. hmm

[edit] - It works some times but most of the time it doesn't.

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#2 2009-04-04 03:18:51

Allan
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Re: Configs are not saving.

Your file system isn't mounted as read only, is it?

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#3 2009-04-04 03:31:34

pharcyde
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Re: Configs are not saving.

Allan wrote:

Your file system isn't mounted as read only, is it?

LOL, yeah that was it. Somehow I didn't notice this:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/1548fb65-e0d0-489b-bac7-c4dc7a0719a0 RO

Must have happened when I updated kernel.

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#4 2009-04-04 03:36:42

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Re: Configs are not saving.

That 'ro' in the grub line should be there, and doesn't mean that you're ultimately mounting your filesystem as read-only.  The 'ro' flag in the grub line only mounts the root filesystem read-only initially so that filesystem checks can be performed.  Might want to check your /etc/fstab and see if a read-only flag is set there.  (Did removing the 'ro' from the grub line actually fix things?)

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#5 2009-04-04 03:40:15

pharcyde
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Re: Configs are not saving.

RedSocrates wrote:

That 'ro' in the grub line should be there, and doesn't mean that you're ultimately mounting your filesystem as read-only.  The 'ro' flag in the grub line only mounts the root filesystem read-only initially so that filesystem checks can be performed.  Might want to check your /etc/fstab and see if a read-only flag is set there.  (Did removing the 'ro' from the grub line actually fix things?)

It appears to have. Here is fstab:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

UUID=1548fb65-e0d0-489b-bac7-c4dc7a0719a0 / ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=8d4c7698-d94c-403f-85b2-ad21a9f351a5 /home ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=acd92ae6-b7a1-4d0b-9211-725e991dac59 /var reiserfs defaults 0 1
UUID=c3f1db01-3d79-45bb-9175-69749fc3e8aa swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/sr0 /mnt/dvd   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/sr1 /media/dvd1   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0


/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows_d ntfs-3g users,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002         0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows_c ntfs-3g users,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002         0 0

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#6 2009-04-04 03:47:50

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Re: Configs are not saving.

You don't have a /boot filesystem that you're not mounting, do you? I had this happen to me. I installed lots of stuff into the /boot directory on /, but it didn't make anything change since it was booting from a separate /boot that I wasn't even seeing.

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#7 2009-04-04 03:54:47

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Re: Configs are not saving.

fstab looks fine.  I don't have any additional suggestions, so I'll let others answer and/or wait to hear the response to ataraxia.  EDIT: Actually, I lied; I do have one other consideration.  Is it possible that your /boot/grub/menu.lst file is being occasionally "restored to defaults" because other packages are sometimes actually overwriting the one you have when they're installed?  I have "NoUpgrade = /boot/grub/menu.lst" in my /etc/pacman.conf file.  Do you?

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#8 2009-04-04 04:01:33

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Re: Configs are not saving.

ataraxia wrote:

You don't have a /boot filesystem that you're not mounting, do you? I had this happen to me. I installed lots of stuff into the /boot directory on /, but it didn't make anything change since it was booting from a separate /boot that I wasn't even seeing.

No, I do not.

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