hello, I ran an fsck and the problem is solved. :) Thanks, ~~TheCreator~~ Visit TDS for quality software and website production http://tysdomain.com visit the piratecafe for programming related resources: http://piratecafe.net msn: tyler at tysdomain.com skype: st8amnd127 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Baechler" <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 3:30 AM Subject: Re: root fs has suddenly became read only > Tyler Littlefield wrote: >> I was wondering if anyone had any ideas. everything under / is now >> read-only. >> > > > > Hi, > > Can you give more details? What distro are you using? What did you do > right before that happened? Were there any messages in any logs like > syslog or dmesg? Are you booting from a live CD which mounts your drives > as ro? Have you ran fsck or had file system errors lately? Did your > computer lock up and not shut down properly? This is doubtful, but are > you using the ext2 filesystem without journaling? Is there an error in > your boot scripts that prevents it from switching to mounting RW? > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > __________ NOD32 3361 (20080816) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > >