[plug] Root filesystem not remounting read-write?

[Bernd Felsche]

On Thursday 15 July 2004 11:57, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <200407151115.35332 at death.2.spammers>

> on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:15:35AM +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> > The root filesystem (reiser) seems to have been afflicted in some
> > way during one crash... it fsck's OK, but a normal boot fails to
> > mount it read-write.
>
> [...]
>
> > I've instrumented boot.localfs with debug statements...should I be
> > looking at things other than the return status of the mount commands?
>
> Forgive me for asking the obvious:
>  - are you sure that your dmesg and other logs
>    do not give any hint as to why the volume ends
>    up read-only?

dmesg is the first thing I checked; then /var/log/boot.msg
(/var is a separate filesystem)

Unfortunately, boot.localfs re-directed some stderr to /dev/null in
places, so I hope I'll get some useful diagnostics from my
instruments next boot.

>  - Is your /etc/fstab OK?

Yup.

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