you know....my system started behaving like that before the drive failed (if i remember correctly). :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Hmmm: Post your /proc/mounts and your /etc/ftab please? > > 1) Your / partition shows "errors=remount-ro 0 1 > > > dmesg|grep read-only > > If 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. > > > fsck -y /dev/sda1 > > > OR without rebooting in to a diagnostic distro or LiveCD try: > > > umount /dev/sda1 > > > mount /dev/sda1 / > > > THEN Try to FORCE a fsck: > > touch /forcefsck > reboot > > > 2) What does your /etc/passwd and /etc/group file say for your users? > Are those numbers the same on your root partition? > > You might need to do a quick chown to your ~/ or $HOME directory to get > the right UID/GID for it. > > grep root /etc/passwd > > grep $username /etc/group > > chown -R root:root /home > > cd /home > > chown -R $username:$username username > > > That should clear up and uid/gid issues. > > 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: > > 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: > > /dev/sda1 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0 > with > /dev/sda6 /home ext4 rw 0 0 > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >