rh7.3 filesystem becomes read only after update!?

[kles koe]

tnx a lot for your suggestions.

you seem to be right,
has probably nothing to do with the legacy updates after all
after some research i found out the entire raid array seems to be dying.
this just coincidentally happened right after an update.

im sorry if i upset ya'll.



>From: Jeroen Wunnink <jeroen at easyhosting.nl>
>Reply-To: Discussion of the Fedora Legacy Project 
><fedora-legacy-list at redhat.com>
>To: Discussion of the Fedora Legacy Project <fedora-legacy-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: rh7.3 filesystem becomes read only after update!?
>Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 13:57:03 +0200
>
>This usually means the filesystem jumps into read only mode because some fs 
>errors have occured.
>We've had this problem last month with a server, and it ended up that the 
>harddisk was going bad.
>
>You can try to remount the filesystem first: 'mount -o remount /home' for 
>example and see if that solves it..
>
>If not, you can try to unmount the filesystem directly if possible (make 
>sure there's no processes keeping it occupied) and do a e2fsck on it, or 
>reboot it in single user mode and then fsck all filesystems if it concerns 
>/ or /boot for example..
>
>It may solve it, but big chance that it'll pop back in read only mode after 
>a while again..
>
>Advice: back up the system and go swap the harddisk..
>
>
>At 13:43 31-3-2005, you wrote:
>>Hi folks,
>>
>>last month i upgraded a rh7.3 server that has been running without 
>>problems for over 3 years or so with the the latest legacy kernel and all 
>>seemed well (i always apply the legacy updates after a few days).
>>yesterday i updated to the new sharutils package.
>>
>>last night the server started giving me trouble.
>>seems i can't create files anymore!
>>i get messages like filesystem is read only.
>>
>>eg:
>># touch blah
>>touch: creating `blah': Read-only file system
>>
>>however, mount gives me:
>># mount
>>/dev/md2 on / type ext3 (rw)
>>none on /proc type proc (rw)
>>usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
>>/dev/md1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
>>none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
>>none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
>>
>>i noticed this problem because apache failed to restart:
>># /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl startssl
>>Ouch! ap_mm_create(1048576, "/usr/local/apache/logs/httpd.mm.11813") 
>>failed
>>Error: MM: mm:core: failed to open semaphore file (Read-only file system): 
>>OS: No such file or directory
>>/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl startssl: httpd could not be started
>>
>>- after the reboot for the kernel last month the server is still running 
>>(uptime 28 days now).
>>- the filesystem isn't full either.
>>- can't find anything in the log files that can give me a clue as to what 
>>could be wrong
>>- i have another 7.3 server that has been configured in practically the 
>>same way but doesnt have the sharutils package installed and that one has 
>>seems to be running just fine although the kernel was updated a few days 
>>later (uptime 23 days now).
>>
>>
>>nothing else happened on this system lately so i the only thing i can 
>>think of is that it has something to do with either the latest kernel or 
>>sharutils package...
>>does anybody else have this problem?
>>
>>i have no clue as to where this problem comes from or how to resolve it.
>>
>>i tried to remove the sharutils package alltogether but that doesnt work 
>>either:
>># rpm -e sharutils
>>error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
>>error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
>>error: cannot open /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
>>
>>
>>any ideas would be very welcome!
>>
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