you know....my system started behaving like that before the drive failed (if i remember correctly).<br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Lisa Kachold <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lisakachold@obnosis.com" target="_blank">lisakachold@obnosis.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Joe,<div><br></div><div>Hmmm: Post your /proc/mounts and your /etc/ftab please?<br><div><br></div><div>1) Your / partition shows "errors=remount-ro 0 1</div><div><br></div><div><pre style="padding:0.75em 1.5em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);font-size:12px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221) rgb(169,169,169) rgb(170,170,170) rgb(221,221,221);overflow:auto;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;color:rgb(39,39,39);line-height:19.78333282470703px">
dmesg|grep read-only</pre></div><div>I<span style="color:rgb(39,39,39);font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:19.78333282470703px">f you see a line in dmesg that reads "Remounting filesystem read-only" (/ as 'ro') then obviously it is mounting read only and I would suggest you force a fsck, but only by booting into the LiveCD say for Knoppix where the /dev/sda1 is not used for anything. Once it's no longer mounted read only, you can force a fsck. You can also try to unmount and remount. </span><br>
</div><div><pre style="padding:0.75em 1.5em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);font-size:12px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221) rgb(169,169,169) rgb(170,170,170) rgb(221,221,221);overflow:auto;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;color:rgb(39,39,39);line-height:19.78333282470703px">
fsck -y /dev/sda1</pre><pre style="padding:0.75em 1.5em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);font-size:12px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221) rgb(169,169,169) rgb(170,170,170) rgb(221,221,221);overflow:auto;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;color:rgb(39,39,39);line-height:19.78333282470703px">
OR without rebooting in to a diagnostic distro or LiveCD try:</pre><pre style="padding:0.75em 1.5em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);font-size:12px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221) rgb(169,169,169) rgb(170,170,170) rgb(221,221,221);overflow:auto;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;color:rgb(39,39,39);line-height:19.78333282470703px">
umount /dev/sda1</pre><pre style="padding:0.75em 1.5em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);font-size:12px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221) rgb(169,169,169) rgb(170,170,170) rgb(221,221,221);overflow:auto;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;color:rgb(39,39,39);line-height:19.78333282470703px">
mount /dev/sda1 /</pre><pre style="padding:0.75em 1.5em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);font-size:12px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221) rgb(169,169,169) rgb(170,170,170) rgb(221,221,221);overflow:auto;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;color:rgb(39,39,39);line-height:19.78333282470703px">
THEN Try to FORCE a fsck:</pre></div><div><pre style="padding:0.75em 1.5em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);font-size:12px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221) rgb(169,169,169) rgb(170,170,170) rgb(221,221,221);overflow:auto;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px;color:rgb(39,39,39);line-height:19.78333282470703px">
<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px">touch /forcefsck
reboot</code></pre></div><div><br></div><div>2) What does your /etc/passwd and /etc/group file say for your users?</div>
<div>Are those numbers the same on your root partition?</div></div><div><br></div><div>You might need to do a quick chown to your ~/ or $HOME directory to get the right UID/GID for it.</div><div><pre style="padding:0.75em 1.5em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221) rgb(169,169,169) rgb(170,170,170) rgb(221,221,221);overflow:auto;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">
<font face="arial"><span style="white-space:normal">grep root /etc/passwd</span></font></pre><pre style="padding:0.75em 1.5em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221) rgb(169,169,169) rgb(170,170,170) rgb(221,221,221);overflow:auto;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">
<font face="arial"><span style="white-space:normal">grep $username /etc/group</span></font></pre><pre style="padding:0.75em 1.5em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221) rgb(169,169,169) rgb(170,170,170) rgb(221,221,221);overflow:auto;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">
<font face="arial"><span style="white-space:normal">chown -R root:root /home</span></font></pre><pre style="padding:0.75em 1.5em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221) rgb(169,169,169) rgb(170,170,170) rgb(221,221,221);overflow:auto;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">
<font face="arial"><span style="white-space:normal">cd /home</span></font></pre><pre style="padding:0.75em 1.5em;background-color:rgb(248,248,248);border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(221,221,221) rgb(169,169,169) rgb(170,170,170) rgb(221,221,221);overflow:auto;border-top-left-radius:3px;border-top-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-right-radius:3px;border-bottom-left-radius:3px">
<font face="arial"><span style="white-space:normal">chown -R $username:$username username</span></font></pre></div><div><br></div><div>That should clear up and uid/gid issues.</div><div><br></div><div>3) It's possible that you are trying to use the UUID to mount that /home partition and that's failing. Use the /dev/sda6 instead in your fstab. COPY existing FSTAB to backup first:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Remove that UUID line and change to the /device name. While the UUID is the standard, you can also use the old conventions like so:</div><div><br></div><div><pre style="max-height:600px;width:auto;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-bottom:10px;padding:5px;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:18px;font-size:14px;overflow:auto;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif;margin-top:0px;border:0px">
<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:14px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif">/dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
with
/dev/sda6 /home ext4 rw 0 0</code></pre></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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