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 at 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080409/0c1a5f54/attachment-0005.html>