Frank Tanner III wrote: > Has anyone else had an issue with, after a random interval, the file > system going Read Only and having to reboot to resolve the issue? > > I'm on a fresh install of FC6 using the "factory" non-Xen kernel. EXT-3 > is the file system > > I've searched on Google and haven't seen anyone posting anything about > this, but I figured that I would check the list. > > Any assistance that anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated. Quite how often does this happen? Is it normally a matter of hours? What does smartctl -l error /dev/hda return? (You may need to specify /dev/sda, or something else: run mount, and if you see a line like /dev/hdb6 on / type ext3 (rw) then drop the number from /dev/hdb6 and run smartctl -l error /dev/hdb Have you loaded any proprietary kernel modules (for wireless ethernet or graphics cards)? What sort of graphics card do you have? Can you tell us what grep Driver /etc/X11/xorg.conf returns (says he, trying to remember how much actually goes in a "stock" FC6 xorg.conf. I'm pretty sure that still does...) When the system has gone Read-Only, what sort of error messages are displayed if you press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a text console? It may be worth leaving the computer on overnight to see if you can "grab" any more data. (Use Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get back to a graphical mode). You can use Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDown to scroll through what gets printed to the text consoles -- unfortunately, the "scrollback" gets lost when you switch consoles. That's why it would be helpful if you were *already* in the text console when the system goes Read Only... Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | Practically any car advert, for example, shows you that aprilcottage.co.uk | if you buy this car you will get so lost that you end up | parked (well, no. The word here is "stuck") on a mountain | in Monument Valley. -- Telsa Gwynne -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list