On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Billy Crook bcrook@riskanalytics.comwrote:
usually a disk failure when that happens out of the blue. try writing to /dev/shm/ if you have to save a file. (That's a virtual fs in memory, so be advised it will disappear on reboot.) check dmesg for errors.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Wes James comptekki@gmail.com wrote:
I have installed emacs with yum and now I'm trying to create a .emacs
file
and put some commands in it, but I can't type anything in the emacs buffer. It says the buffer is read-only. I exited emacs and did touch .emacs and I get a message that it can't do that on a read-only file system. I googled around to see why this might be, but I can't see any links on this. Any tips why this might be doing this? I've heard that centos is strict on changes, but I don't know the extent it restricts changes. I followed a page where I did echo 0 >/selinux/enforce . But this is only good until reboot. But shouldn't I be now able to make
changes
in ~*
Thanks,
-wes __
That was it. This is an old mac pro that I put centos on yesterday. It had 4 disks in it and this is the 3rd that has died. A faculty member had it for 5-6 years and it was on 24/7. It's been in the junk pile for several months. I guess long enough for the disks to go south from sitting on so long then going off for a period... maybe.... Anyone heard of this?
Thanks,
Wes