Harry,
A badly crashed filesystem can seem to be in read only mode, did you check the mount flags and dmesg messages before rebooting?
Try booting up on a rescue CD and run fsck on all filesystems, if this does not work I suggest that you apply your backup.
// Nicco
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:48 AM, Harry Sukumar hsukumar@bond.edu.au wrote:
Good Day All,
I have a serious problem on one of my servers running CentOS 5!!!
The problem started this way,
I wanted to store some data under /home and I got an error message saying it is in the read only mode
So I rebooted the machine,
Then I see this serious error messages at boot time (I am unable to boot)
Here is the Error Message!!!
**** Error occurred during the file system check.*
**** Dropping you to shell; the system will reboot*
**** when you leave the shell*
*Give root password for maintenance *
*(or type control D to continue):*
*Bash: dircolors: command not found*
*Bash: /usr/bin/id: No such file or directory*
*Bash: [:=: unary operator expected*
*(Repair filesystem)1 #*
When I press control D the machine reboots itself and comes back to the same prompt asking for root password for maintenance
Your help in this matter is highly appreciated
Many Thanks
Harry
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