On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 09:25:38 -0500, James J Dempsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello Arnt, > > I have a debian woody system that has been up for 88 days. Just now, > it started believing the root filesystem was mounted read-only. ..believing? ;-) > I tried to remount it and got: > > $ sudo mount -t ext3 -o rw,remount /dev/hda1 / > mount: block device /dev/hda1 is write-protected, mounting read-only > $ > > Just as you did in a post to debian-user in July. There were no > responses to your post. Did you ever find the problem? ..yup, bad disk. > Looking back in my log, I see some errors from yesterday afternoon > complaining about > > dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=28057236, > sector=15237272 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:08 (hda), sector > 15237272 > > and then a couple more this morning. This must have triggered it. > > Were you able to solve your problem without rebooting? > > --Jim Dempsey-- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://jjd.com/ > ..no, I needed a new disk. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]