Help! /dev/null: Read-only file system

Plant, Dean dean.plant at roke.co.uk
Thu Jan 5 13:06:31 UTC 2006


bsnottum at hkskole.no wrote:
> Hallo!
> 
> I am running more than 10 fc2 servers, and now 2 of them have come up
> with the same error-message when booting:
> 
> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 195: /dev/null: Read-only file system
> 
> Ar first the servers seemed to be running without a problem, but when
> I restarted them the message above was displayed, and the booting
> prosess stops.
> 
> This is obviously very serious!! Can anyone help me on this??!
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Bjorn

I have seen a similar problem like this before, check that /dev/null is
still a character device and has not had a file created in it's place.

Dean




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