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dan1 wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Did someone already see the following errors doing a 'yum update' on
> CentOS 4 ?
>
> rpmdb: write: 0xb5fb610c, 4096: Read-only file system
> rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/Packages: write failed for page 11801
> If I do the same on another computer with CentOS 4 this doesn't happen.
> I reinstalled everything from scratch and tried again, but the same
> happened.
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
Looks like / or /var (depending on your setup) is mounted read-only on
your system. I believe that root is initally mounted as read-only and
then remounted as read-write during boot, perhaps something is going
wrong during the remount.
Did you have a disk crash or something strange happen recently? Is the
hard drive ok? You might want to try some of the utilities contained in
the ultimate boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com) to check your disk
for errors.
In short, yum is failing because it cannot write its data to /var. If
your / or /var partition is mounted read-only, I'd be surprised if this
is the ONLY error you were seeing.
Sincerely,
Shawn M. Jones
