[arch-general] / mounted ro after update

[P .NIKOLIC]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 22:29:02 +0530
Aurko Roy <roy.aurko at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:05 PM, P .NIKOLIC
> <p.nikolic1 at btinternet.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hi folks
> >
> > Having been in hospital for a while i updated this system a couple
> > of days ago and am having some strange problems
> >
> >
> > If i run  pacman -Syu   i get
> > 7-of-9:/ # pacman -Syu
> > :: Synchronising package databases...
> > error: failed to update core (unable to lock database)
> > error: failed to update extra (unable to lock database)
> > error: failed to update community (unable to lock database)
> > error: failed to update multilib (unable to lock database)
> > error: failed to synchronise any databases
> > error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)
> > error: could not lock database: Read-only file system
> >
> > mount gives
> >
> > 7-of-9:/ # 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=1990844k,nr_inodes=497711,mode=755) run
> > on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755) /dev/sda3
> > on / type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered) devpts on /dev/pts type
> > devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) shm
> > on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime) tmpfs on /tmp
> > type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime) /dev/sda4 on /home type ext4
> > (rw,relatime,data=ordered) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2
> > (rw,relatime) binfmt on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
> > (rw,relatime) gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/pete/.gvfs type
> > fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
> > (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100)
> >
> > contents of /etc/fstab
> >
> > #
> > # /etc/fstab: static file system information
> > #
> > # <file system> <dir>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> > tmpfs           /tmp    tmpfs   nodev,nosuid    0       0
> > UUID=34fd95b0-a146-47a8-8fa4-78dcedd8c127  /home ext4  defaults 0 1
> > UUID=49c2a61c-19e8-4f45-b8ef-72507d60ee06  /boot ext2  defaults 0 1
> > UUID=a1439104-fcea-4c90-b0fb-2340154a9eae  /     ext4  defaults 0 1
> > UUID=b25ccd70-a144-40af-8126-303d7333cdb4  swap  swap  defaults 0 0
> >
> >
> > 7-of-9:/ # uname -a
> > Linux 7-of-9 3.5.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 26 09:14:51 CEST
> > 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > Hints please where to look i have compared this system to the laptop
> > and can see no major differences i have checked the drive it reports
> > all ok
> >
> > Pete .
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Linux 7-of-9 3.5.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 26 09:14:51 CEST
> > 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> 
> What is the output of blkid? I recall reading a similar problem on the
> forum (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137255) where the
> problem was caused by an update to util-linux which had changed the
> uuid of the root partition so that the root could not be correctly
> remounted rw.
> 
> Hope that helps.

Humm well still having the same problem i have tried using the older
version of util-linux to no avail

all disc ID's are correct  so what has been screwed up this was perfect
until the update  or am i going to be forced to re-install   not an
option i look forward to 

Pete .




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Linux 7-of-9 3.5.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 26 09:14:51 CEST 2012
x86_64 GNU/Linux