emerge sync: ext3 spontaneous re-mount read-only & lock ups

trevarthan · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Tennessee

Hello,

Is anyone else out there experiencing spontaneous read-only filesystems?

I've got 3 separate machines running 2.6.11-r2 and 2.6.13 kernel & ext3, and every single one has had '/' spontaneously re-mounted read-only during an emerge sync.

Hardware is very different between machines. *ATA (1 SATA machine, 2 PATA). 1x Pentium 2 SMP, 1x Pentium 3 SMP, 1x Pentium 3 uniprocessor. Only real common ground hardware-wise is that they're all non-ECC, and they've all been very reliable for 6 months until August, when they started locking up.

chkrootkit reveals no problems. All machines are now running 2.6.13 kernels and are completely up to date, but still experiencing regular lock-ups on at least one machine and intermittent lock-ups on another.

Has anyone else seen this?

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Jesse Guardiani

ttuttle · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Posts: 131

Have you checked dmesg? Usually spontaneous remounting ro is because the kernel detected filesystem corruption and wants you to repair it, instead of just messing it up worse by writing to the disk where it might overwrite a file by accident. Try running a full filesystem check on each one.

trevarthan · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Tennessee

Yeah, I'm aware of that. But the question is: Why did it get corrupted in the first place?
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fdavid · Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:51 am Post subject:

See also: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-319929-highlight-.html

No solution yet. I encounter the same with kernel 2.6.10r1 and ext3.
I don't know if anyone has already filed a bug, I'm not sure if it's a portage, or rsync, or filesystem issue.