Bug 56428 – checkroot from baselayout 1.10.1-r1 mounts fs read-only one time _before_ fschk is needed

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED FIXED

[Description Dead Schorsch 2004-07-08 02:02:08 UTC]

I have ext3 on all of my filesystems. Still - since this is an often bootet laptop - running file systems check periodically is enabled and properly reported by checkroot.

But - one mount _before_ a file system check is actually run, the filesystems are mounted read-only, causing the system to fail on almost every task. 

One reboot later, fsck is run and everything is okay again, until mount 24 of 25 arrives again.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot
2. reboot
3.

Actual Results:  
1) fs mounted read-only
2) fs checked, mounted rw

Expected Results:  
do not mount fs read-only unless needed.

Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.7)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.5.1
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/tomcat /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox userpriv"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/
ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo
http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X acpi acpi4linux aim alsa antlr apache2 apm audiofile avi berkdb bluetooth
bonobo cddb cdr chroot crypt cups devfs26 doc dvd encode esd ethereal evo fam
foomaticdb gda gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glade gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile
ieee1394 imagemagick imlib irda java jpeg ldap libg++ libwww mad mbox mikmod mmx
motif mozilla mpeg mpeg4 msn ncurses nls odbc oggvorbis opengl pam pcmcia pda
pdflib perl png postgres ppds python quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang
sox spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype usb vanilla x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 giggles1 2004-07-09 01:56:07 UTC]

I am not sure, but I think I have either the same or a very similar problem.  I am using reiserfs on my laptop / partition, and everyonce in a while, / will not propery get remounted read-rwite. checkroot *says* it has remounted / read-write, but then almost every action afterwards proceeds to fail with the error "read-only filesystem"

[Comment 2 Evert 2004-10-30 01:40:03 UTC]

try this, seems to works for me...

rc-update del hotplug boot
rc-update add hotplug default

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2005-07-09 16:22:02 UTC]

do you guys all use hotplug ?

[Comment 4 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2005-07-11 01:33:16 UTC]

Mike, I wonder if this might not be fixed by the new remount code ?  Might be a
kernel issue with reiserfs/whatever that do not like remount ro of ro /, then
remount rw again ...

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2005-07-15 18:13:12 UTC]

maybe ... can you guys try baselayout 1.11.13 and see if it works properly ?

[Comment 6 Dead Schorsch 2005-08-12 05:55:39 UTC]

It hasn't happpened for a long while now, so I didn't pay much attention to this
bug. As for me, it's fixed (though I do not know what fixed it) and can be closed.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2005-08-12 06:23:53 UTC]

ok, thanks

[Comment 8 Dead Schorsch 2005-10-06 08:36:41 UTC]

Obsolete