i quit

tumult · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 4:38 am Post subject: i quit

I'm done. While trying to get various things to work, I've managed to really screw up the fstab to the point where I can no longer boot the machine properly without getting an error message telling me to log in as root to perform maintenance. I get logged in and make the neccessary changes but I can't save since everything is now locked in read only land. I don't care to reinstall everything again, so it looks like I'm going back to redhat and it's dependancy hell...

myrddian · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 27

Sounds like you managed to corrupt your file system .... also why where you fiddling around the fstab file? Unless you set it read only???

You can reboot into a safe disc and mount the file system edit the fstab file again.

Valen · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 4:54 am Post subject:

If you want to give one more shot at fixing things try mount -o remount,rw / (replace / with another partition if appropriate), this command will remount your filesystem, except now it will be writable (assuming something else doesn't break). If you have already decided to go back to redhat, you may want to look into apt-rpm if you haven't already heard of it (it is a port of Debian's apt tool which does dependency checking -- I haven't used it though, just heard of it).

In either case, good luck.

tomaw · Guru Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 429 Location: UK

I have heard of it, but only with SuSE. It works well, but I prefer portage.

Tom

tumult · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2003 2:26 pm Post subject:

Thank you Valen! you are indeed a lifesaver! The mount-o remount,rw / worked and I got my one error in the fstab fixed and things are back to normal. X is still giving me troubles but I'm working on it. Thank you again!

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

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FxChiP · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Apr 2003 Posts: 103

I've had problems where fstab had /dev/hda3 (my Linux partition) trying to be mounted as "xfs" when it's in actuality an ext3 partition...

Happened just after I compiled my kernel, too... (gaming-sources)