On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:05 PM, P .NIKOLIC <p.nikolic1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hi folks > > Having been in hospital for a while i updated this system a couple of > days ago and am having some strange problems > > > If i run pacman -Syu i get > 7-of-9:/ # pacman -Syu > :: Synchronising package databases... > error: failed to update core (unable to lock database) > error: failed to update extra (unable to lock database) > error: failed to update community (unable to lock database) > error: failed to update multilib (unable to lock database) > error: failed to synchronise any databases > error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database) > error: could not lock database: Read-only file system > > mount gives > > 7-of-9:/ # mount > proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) > sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) > dev on /dev type devtmpfs > (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1990844k,nr_inodes=497711,mode=755) run > on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,mode=755) /dev/sda3 on / > type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts > (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) shm on /dev/shm > type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime) tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs > (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime) /dev/sda4 on /home type ext4 > (rw,relatime,data=ordered) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,relatime) > binfmt on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,relatime) > gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/pete/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon > (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100) > > contents of /etc/fstab > > # > # /etc/fstab: static file system information > # > # <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nodev,nosuid 0 0 > UUID=34fd95b0-a146-47a8-8fa4-78dcedd8c127 /home ext4 defaults 0 1 > UUID=49c2a61c-19e8-4f45-b8ef-72507d60ee06 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1 > UUID=a1439104-fcea-4c90-b0fb-2340154a9eae / ext4 defaults 0 1 > UUID=b25ccd70-a144-40af-8126-303d7333cdb4 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > > 7-of-9:/ # uname -a > Linux 7-of-9 3.5.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 26 09:14:51 CEST 2012 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > Hints please where to look i have compared this system to the laptop > and can see no major differences i have checked the drive it reports > all ok > > Pete . > > > > -- > Linux 7-of-9 3.5.3-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Aug 26 09:14:51 CEST 2012 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > What is the output of blkid? I recall reading a similar problem on the forum (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137255) where the problem was caused by an update to util-linux which had changed the uuid of the root partition so that the root could not be correctly remounted rw. Hope that helps. -- Aurko Roy GPG key: 0x20C5BC31 Fingerprint:76B4 9677 15BE 731D 1949 85BA 2A31 B442 20C5 BC31
