Read only after install [SOLVED -- systemd related]

Anyone know why a new (booted ~2-3 times) install would suddenly mount read-only?  /etc/fstab is fine, /etc/mtab reports rootfs / as rw, and I am logged in as root, but I get "read-only filesystem", hence there are no logs, etc.
Last edited by goldilocks (2012-10-14 18:01:41)

DSpider wrote:You probably removed "ro" from syslinux.cfg.
Nope.   I have a startup service I use on fedora, and since the target I usually use wasn't apparent, I casually systemctl enabled it with WantedBy=local-fs.target, figuring if that was too early it would just fail (it writes to to disk).
Using "mount -o remount,rw /" worked, so I tried a few things like switching fstab to use a UUID instead of a device node, that didn't work.  Finally I disabled the service and everything is back to normal.
I did this a couple of times (enabling, rebooting, disabling, rebooting) just to confirm that was the cause. I guess that target runs before the rw remount, maybe this causes systemd to crap out in some way.  Shame it can't just fail the service, log it, and continue.  Maybe even an oversight verging on "bug", though I am sure they are aware of it already.
I'd mark this "SOLVED" but I don't see a button...
Last edited by goldilocks (2012-10-14 17:49:16)

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