Problem with yum and initscripts

[D. Stolte]

mount -n -o remount,rw /

/ds

Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Both of these are x86_64 related (I've not seen them happen on my x86 box).
> 
> For some reason (which I'm assuming is down to the installonly plugin on yum),
> new kernels are downloaded when I do a yum update, but are not installed. This
> means I'm still on the 1740_FC5 kernel which is somewhat out of date. If
> anyone else is seeing that, I'll fill out a bugzilla report.
> 
> The second one is more worrying as it looks like initscripts is broken
> (updated from 16th Dec). On reboot, I'm getting two errors
> 
> Starting udev:udevd-event[1119]: udev_db_lookup_name: unable to open udev_db
> '/dev/.udev/db': No such file or directory
> Starting udev:udevd-event[1119]: udev_db_lookup_name: unable to open udev_db
> '/dev/.udev/db': No such file or directory
> 
> Hardware initialise is fine, loads the correct keymap, sets the hostname,
> reports no RAID, sets up LVM - finds 2 logical volumes in group "VolGroup00"
> now active and then...
> 
> Checking filesystems
> fsck.ext3: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=/'
> 
> This the drops me down to the file system check error prompt. I enter the root
> password and try to edit fstab. No go. Write protected. Try to reinstall the
> previous initscripts. No go. Cannot create a lock on /var/rpm.
> 
> /dev/hda is reporting as being fine and I can mount if I use RIP Linux.
> 
> This second problem is far more pressing that the first. Can anyone suggest a
> way to fix this? Is there something I can pass via grub so that the drives are
> mounted RW instead of R?
> 
> TTFN
> 
> Paul
>