Re: journal aborted, system read-only
From: Stephen C. Tweedie
Date: Thu Sep 16 2004 - 05:54:02 EST
Hi,
On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 06:03, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >Well, we really need to see _what_ error the journal had encountered
...
> It just did it to me again, this time with 2.6.9-rc1-mm5.
> And as usual in these cases, the logs are spotlessly clean
> because /var is on /, which is on /dev/hda7, an syslog couldn't write
> when its read-only.
Possibility the first is to create a separate partition for /var;
possibility the second is to set up a serial console. Without access to
that log information, all we know is "there was an IO error," and that's
really not enough to narrow down the search. :-)
Thanks,
Stephen
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