FIle system read only after install ?

Gentobobbyuk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2020 Posts: 196

I seem to have a read only file system after boot .

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Gentobobbyuk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2020 Posts: 196

that has edited itself for some reason there is deffo no space on noatime on my fstab
ive also tried to /dev/sda4 optiom there is deffo no space on eitjer

Tony0945 · Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 2:04 am Post subject:

Also two partitions with the same mount point, /boot/efi
Are you using grub, reFind or something else?

Perhaps you intended /dev/sda2 to be /boot ?

Jaglover · Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 2:09 am Post subject:

Either your init system fails to run properly or your root filesystem has "dirty bit" set. You may want to activate interactive boot in rc.conf.
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Gentobobbyuk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2020 Posts: 196

please explain how to do both options im not the smartest

sorry i typed the /boot/efi twice

my fstab is deffo set correctly .

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Gentobobbyuk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2020 Posts: 196

This still is not working my friend

Gentobobbyuk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2020 Posts: 196

How do i check if my init is working properply maybe i have missed something

Jaglover · Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 5:18 pm Post subject:

Gentobobbyuk,

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 5:31 pm Post subject:

Gentobobbyuk,

Root normally stays read only because the rootfsck service ran and failed.
You will get an error in dmesg when that happens.

With some filesystem, add ro to the kernel command line passed by the boot loader, prevents root being remounted read/write.

/etc/fsck is not used to find the root filesystem but it is consulted by rootfsck to learn the filesystem type.
If your root is not xfs, rootfsck fails.
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Jaglover · Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 6:17 pm Post subject:

NeddySeagoon,

there is a duplicate entry in fstab. I'm not sure what localmount does in case like this, maybe it stops processing fstab.
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Gentobobbyuk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2020 Posts: 196

So as a dyslexic user asking for help im better of asking google is that what ur saying ? as i have no idea why its not working never had this issue before and ive been hamering google .

i dont no if its a line in my grub or what i dont no where stuff is located a gentoo has changed .

so ur basically saying dont ask the forum ?>

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 7:09 pm Post subject:

Jaglover,

localmount is quite happy to mount one filesystem over the other.
Don't ask how I know that :)

Hmm ... /boot is noauto, so the /boot/efi mount point won't exist.
Both the /boot/efi mounts are missing the nofail option, so localmount fails.

Gentobobbyuk,

Look carefully at what Jaglover is not telling you. The pathway is there to be followed, if a little obscured by the nots.

Remove the noauto option from boot. Its preventing any of your /boot/efi mounts from suceeding.
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Gentobobbyuk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2020 Posts: 196

ok neddy so remove no auto from boot or both boot and efi dont worry they are sepreate partions

Ive removed it and still getting read only .

There are so erros on boot red but far to quick for me to see

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 7:26 pm Post subject:

Gentobobbyuk,

One step at a time. Having two /boot/efi entries in fstab is wrong but thats not why root is read only.
Not mouting /boot, then trying to mount /boot/efi inside it will fail because /boot is not mounted.
That may cause root to stay read only.

Your two /boot/efi entries can be resolved later.
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Gentobobbyuk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2020 Posts: 196

There is one /boot and one boo/efi

/boot is dev/sda2
boot/efi/ is dev/sda1

ive taken the command above off and its still failing,

have i missed a crutical part of the kernel ?

even though my fstab was correct i tired what i had posted by accident and the machine still booted so i dont believe that would of have been a problem anyways ?

Gentobobbyuk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2020 Posts: 196

nofail added still no joy
is there away to post my boot ouput il have to log back in through the usb to emerge any apps

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 8:05 pm Post subject:

Gentobobbyuk,

You need wgetpaste.

Where exactly did you add nofail?
That is a more complex fix than removing noauto.
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Gentobobbyuk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2020 Posts: 196

i added notail to boot and efi

i will emerge wget paste whats the next steps

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri May 29, 2020 9:22 pm Post subject:

Gentobobbyuk,

Emerge wgetpaste. Boot your install. Run

Gentobobbyuk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2020 Posts: 196

cant do that bro read only can i do that command at boot some how ? and if im correrct use this
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to place it in a text file.

remount wget is insatlled wget that file ?

sorry if nonesnece

Jaglover · Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 2:41 am Post subject:

Gentobobbyuk,

there is no law against remounting root filesystem read-write by hand.
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Gentobobbyuk · Apprentice Joined: 23 May 2020 Posts: 196

just mount /devsda4 ?

I havent used gentoo for a long time .
I justr want to make sure im dong things correctly.

I so search google and im dysleic bro i struggle to understand some things thats why i come here for advice.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 12:39 pm Post subject:

Gentobobbyuk,