Bug 346261 – sys-apps/openrc-0.6.4: / is mounted readonly and many services fail to start

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description fkhp 2010-11-21 06:53:19 UTC]

After installing sys-apps/openrc-0.6.4, start screen shows ERROR:
syslog-ng failed to start
acpid failed to start
dbsu failed to start
cpufreqd failed to start

detailed messages said: /var/* readonly filesystem.

after login as root:
#mount  said /etc/mtab is not updated for it is readonly and indicate to check /proc/mounts.
#cat /proc/mounts

/dev/root / ext3 ro,noatime,errors=continue,commit=5,barrier=0,data=ordered 0 0

================
downgrade to 0.6.3 then all OK. and
#cat /proc/moutns
/dev/root / ext3 rw,noatime,errors=continue,commit=5,barrier=0,data=ordered 0 0

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Rafał Mużyło 2010-11-21 16:30:40 UTC]

Did you run etc-update after upgrade ?

[Comment 2 fkhp 2010-11-22 00:38:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Did you run etc-update after upgrade ?
> 

had run dispatch-conf, and use new configuration files.

[Comment 3 Rafał Mużyło 2010-11-22 12:01:59 UTC]

Is it fixed in 0.6.5 ?

[Comment 4 fkhp 2010-11-22 13:31:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Is it fixed in 0.6.5 ?
> 

not fixed in 0.6.5, and problem is same as 0.6.4. this is so badly a bug, the system becomes unusable. 
to downgrade to 0.6.3, I had to use livecd to boot, then mount and chroot and emerge 0.6.3. what a bug onearth?

[Comment 5 fkhp 2010-11-22 14:02:14 UTC]

 * Clock skew detected with `/etc/init.d/rc.d/rc5.d'
 * Adjusting mtime of `/lib64/rc/init.d/deptree' to Tue Nov 23 01:20:33 2010
 * or equivalent before restarting any services or this host.

find this message from the installation log.
clock skew must have been sliped in when  livecd  uses UTC time  while the system use local time with a timezone differs from UTC.

[Comment 6 fkhp 2010-11-22 14:11:21 UTC]

stat /lib64/rc/init.d/deptree
  File: `/lib64/rc/init.d/deptree'
  Size: 53766     	Blocks: 112        IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: ch/12d	Inode: 192         Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2010-11-22 21:48:08.437646042 +0800
Modify: 2010-11-23 01:20:33.000000000 +0800
Change: 2010-11-22 21:48:08.437646042 +0800
 Birth: -

[Comment 7 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2010-11-24 00:16:18 UTC]

This isn't a forum. Please use one (<http://forums.gentoo.org/> springs to mind, or use our IRC channel on <irc://chat.freenode.net/#gentoo>) to figure out what is going on, and reopen this bug report when some real bug is found.