Pacman made filesystem readonly.

jocom · 2010-11-29 16:29:34

Hi,

While I was trying to get a Diskless network boot up and running, following the ArchWiki page about it, I came to the part where I had to run the following command:

pacman -Sy --arch i686 --root /opt/thinclient --dbpath /opt/thinclient/var/lib/pacman base

Well, the command started out nice, but then at a certain moment I got "Read-only filesystem" errors. So, somewhere in the pacman run, /opt was turned into readonly.

How could this have happened? And how do I reverse it? At the moment I can't even remove /opt/thinclient

EDIT: Ok, due to kernel update, I rebooted and this fixed the readonly problem. But, how can I make sure that this will not happen again when I true to run the above pacman command?

jocom

Last edited by jocom (2010-11-29 17:11:47)

pyther · 2010-11-30 13:11:16

I doubt pacman made /opt readonly. You likely had a filesystem errors and the kernel remounted as ro.

Allan · 2010-11-30 13:16:58

pacman really knows nothing about your filesystem so definitely did not make it read only.

litemotiv · 2010-11-30 13:29:15

Moved to Kernel & Hardware Issues.

jocom · 2010-11-30 13:47:04

Thanks for the replies.

Ok, but before I ran that command, I had still created folders etc...
Afterwards, I ran the command, and then it started nicely downloading all the packages, but half-way it stopped, due to the mentioned errors.

Also, 'mount' said that /opt wasn't mounted read-only, still 'touch '/opt/foo' failed due to the error, so I don't understand anything of it.
But I'll retry the particular command, and see if it succeeds this time.

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#1 2010-11-29 16:29:34

Pacman made filesystem readonly.

#2 2010-11-30 13:11:16

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#3 2010-11-30 13:16:58

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#4 2010-11-30 13:29:15

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#5 2010-11-30 13:47:04

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