[SOLVED] util-linux causing read only /

Question

Anyone else having this problem?
After upgrading to testing after boot the root filesystem is readonly with arch init and with systemd...
That's happening for me since 1 or 2 days, maybe the problem was earlier too, don't really know.
Downgraded util-linux (and its dependency mkinitcpio, but not rebuilding the initramfs) to repo version and my / filesystem is rw again after boot...
I have not seen anything on the mailinglist...
Last edited by Cdh (2012-03-09 09:47:22)

Answer 1

Sorry, I first wanted to check if I am the only one or if there are already hundreds of minions working on it.
Logs are complicated on a read only filesystem. Couldn't find anything in dmesg, it just seems that it wasn't remounted rw while booting for some reason.
Nothing fancy here, using the util-linux from core with the rest from testing:
/dev/sda1: UUID="1ec5d4eb-f2c2-445a-88bd-41b5717fab29" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda2: UUID="2e8619f0-1f4f-423b-8dd9-8cb1be8b6e2a" TYPE="ext4"
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#UUID= swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=83a138cd-f2a5-4bdc-bbce-fbc9b8b20212 / ext4 defaults,relatime,user_xattr 0 0
UUID="2e8619f0-1f4f-423b-8dd9-8cb1be8b6e2a" /home/chris ext4 defaults,relatime,user_xattr 0 0
/swapfile swap swap defaults,noauto 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs auto 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,busgid=108,busmode=0775,devgid=108,devmode=0664 0 0
UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB JOB DESCRIPTION
-.mount loaded active mounted /
dev-hugepages.mount loaded active mounted Huge Pages File System
dev-mqueue.mount loaded active mounted POSIX Message Queue File System
home-chris-.gvfs.mount loaded active mounted /home/chris/.gvfs
home-chris.mount loaded active mounted /home/chris
media-cdrom.mount loaded inactive dead /media/cdrom
media-dvd.mount loaded inactive dead /media/dvd
media.mount loaded active mounted Media Directory
proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount loaded inactive dead Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System
sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount loaded active mounted FUSE Control File System
sys-kernel-config.mount loaded inactive dead Configuration File System
sys-kernel-debug.mount loaded active mounted Debug File System
sys-kernel-security.mount loaded active mounted Security File System
var-lock.mount loaded inactive dead Lock Directory
var-run.mount loaded inactive dead Runtime Directory
LOAD = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
SUB = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.
JOB = Pending job for the unit.
15 units listed.
I mentioned the inistscripts and systemd together because it seems not to be a problem in one of them (or in both of them...)
mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda1 /
Gives ma a rw system with testing util-linux with no problems at all...