<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffff66" text="#000000"> I have had this problem before and it turned out to be that even though FSTAB was on a R/W File System that VI was also attempting to write to the /TMP directory, which is not writable, instead of the /mnt/sysimage/tmp directory. I don't remember how I got around it. im <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fedora-test-list-request@redhat.com">fedora-test-list-request@redhat.com</a> wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20080422153202.E59AF6194B5@hormel.redhat.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Send fedora-test-list mailing list submissions to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fedora-test-list@redhat.com">fedora-test-list@redhat.com</a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fedora-test-list-request@redhat.com">fedora-test-list-request@redhat.com</a> You can reach the person managing the list at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fedora-test-list-owner@redhat.com">fedora-test-list-owner@redhat.com</a> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of fedora-test-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: F9: fsck gotcha on booting (Todd Denniston) 2. Re: small program that generates terms in OEIS sequence A016278 (Michael Schwendt) 3. Re: F9: fsck gotcha on booting (Patrick O'Callaghan) 4. Re: X settings not saved under KDE 4 (Patrick O'Callaghan) 5. Re: small program that generates terms in OEIS sequence A016278 (Antonio Olivares) 6. Re: X settings not saved under KDE 4 (Gianluca Cecchi) 7. Re: KDE 4 Pager doesn't show desktop names (Rex Dieter) 8. Digital Clock in KDE (Antonio Olivares) 9. Re: Thinkpad middle button scroll in F9/ rawhide (Derek Cramer) 10. Re: X settings not saved under KDE 4 (Patrick O'Callaghan) 11. Re: Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter (Bob Arendt) 12. Re: Digital Clock in KDE (Patrick O'Callaghan) 13. Re: Digital Clock in KDE (Antonio Olivares) 14. f9 prerelease crash (update sw raid) (Neal Becker) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:12:13 -0400 From: Todd Denniston <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:Todd.Denniston@ssa.crane.navy.mil"><Todd.Denniston@ssa.crane.navy.mil></a> Subject: Re: F9: fsck gotcha on booting To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:fedora-test-list@redhat.com"><fedora-test-list@redhat.com></a> Message-ID: <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:480DE42D.6000507@ssa.crane.navy.mil"><480DE42D.6000507@ssa.crane.navy.mil></a> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Patrick O'Callaghan wrote, On 04/21/2008 11:35 PM: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 20:32 -0700, Andrew Farris wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">My fstab contains the line: LABEL=/xtra /xtra ext3 defaults 1 2 which worked fine on F8. Now with F9-Preview the boot process halts with the following error ï»¿(I'm working form memory here): Fsck: cannot resolve "LABEL=/xtra" and drops me to a Shell to fix the problem. Two things: 1) From the Shell I can happily "mount /xtra" with no problems, so what gives? 2) I can't edit /etc/fstab from this Shell. "mount" claims that the system disk is mounted rw. but when I try to edit fstab "vi" tells me it's read-only, and in fact "> foo" from the Shell gives the same error. So I feel I have to ask why is the emergency Shell set up to not let me edit anything? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Did you try editing then using w! to save it? That may have worked. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Of course. It didn't. w! is fine if it's just a write-protected file. This was a read-only filesystem. poc </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> when in faulted file system mode, trust /proc/mounts instead of /etc/mtab (which is what mount returns data from). a trick for when you need to write to these file systems: mount -oremount,rw /mountpoint i.e., for the root file system mount-oremount,rw / </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>