[arch-general] update of chroot fails - error: cannot remove file '/sys/': Read-only file system

[David C. Rankin]

On 06/27/2012 07:30 AM, Martti Kühne wrote:

>>    How do I fix this? Is this another filesystem update issue like with
>> filesystem-2012.6-2?
>>
>
> mount / -o rw -- that is, something seems to be going wrong with your fstab.
>

Thanks Martti,

   I don't know what the deal is. / _is_ mounted rw:

15:33 archangel:~> mount
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
dev on /dev type devtmpfs 
(rw,nosuid,relatime,size=4055320k,nr_inodes=1013830,mode=755)
run on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755)
/dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap5 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,relatime,mode=600,ptmxmode=000)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,relatime)
binfmt on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime)
/dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap6 on /boot type ext3 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap12 on /home type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap9 on /var type ext3 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap10 on /srv type ext3 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap7 on /data type ext3 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap11 on /home/david/pvt type ext4 
(rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/sde5 on /dat_e type ext3 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)
/dev/sdf5 on /dat_f type ext3 (rw,relatime,data=ordered)

   But still, attempting to update the chroot fails. This has always worked in 
the past. I have a disk that is getting flaky. Maybe this is just a hardware 
issue.

-- 
David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.