[root@cspdv-dblade-07 activemq]# lvscan
File-based locking initialisation failed.
[root@cspdv-dblade-07 activemq]# df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
4062912 733348 3119852 20% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol05
4062912 1325876 2527324 35% /home
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04
6094400 4368492 1411336 76% /var
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03
4062912 140968 3712232 4% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02
8125880 4942096 2764356 65% /usr
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-data
94535540 724192 89009200 1% /data
/dev/sda3 194449 30147 154262 17% /boot
tmpfs 8388608 0 8388608 0% /dev/shm
[root@cspdv-dblade-07 activemq]# mount -a
mount: special device LABEL=/boot does not exist
[root@cspdv-dblade-07 activemq]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
3.9G 717M 3.0G 20% /
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol05
3.9G 1.3G 2.5G 35% /home
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04
5.9G 4.2G 1.4G 76% /var
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol03
3.9G 138M 3.6G 4% /tmp
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol02
7.8G 4.8G 2.7G 65% /usr
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-data
91G 708M 85G 1% /data
/dev/sda3 190M 30M 151M 17% /boot
tmpfs 8.0G 0 8.0G 0% /dev/shm
[root@cspdv-dblade-07 activemq]# cd /boot
[root@cspdv-dblade-07 boot]# ls -ltra
ls: reading directory .: Input/output error
total 0
[root@cspdv-dblade-07 boot]#

Hi there,

Welcome to LQ!!!

It would be good if you would have put some text to explain the issue that you are facing rather then just quoting the output of the commands that you ran.

From the output and little bit that I can collect from the title of this thread it appears that you /boot partition is either not mounted or is mounted as read only.

When you run df -h or df -k it does show you that your /boot partition is mounted but when you try to perform any operation on that it gives you error.

Could you please let us know the output of the following commands:

1. mount | grep /dev/sda3
2. cat /etc/fstab

failed io error direcotry readonly

here is output

[root@cspdv-dblade-07 ~]# mount | grep /dev/sda3
/dev/sda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
[root@cspdv-dblade-07 ~]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol05 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol04 /var ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/VolGroup00/data /data ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
[root@cspdv-dblade-07 ~]# lvscan
File-based locking initialisation failed.

I can see that your /boot directory is mounted as read-write.

Which were the files that you were deleting or was trying to delete?

/usr/local/jboss

Alright.

Which OS you are using? Did you give reboot a try?

From the output it should allow you to read and write to the file system but sometime system just act weird and reboot fix it :-)

I can see your logical volumes mounted so the system appears to be ok.

mount - a gets
[root@cspdv-dblade-07 jboss]# mount -a
mount: special device LABEL=/boot does not exist

Alright. Give this a try:

In /etc/fstab Change

To

and then run mount -a

Make sure you backup /etc/fstab before making changes.

these are the actual errors when deleting
reading directory `CPMDL60PERF.war/WEB-INF/license/SAXPath': Input/output error
rm: reading directory `CPMDL60PERF.war/WEB-INF/license/MPL1.1': Input/output error
rm: reading directory `CPMDL60PERF.war/WEB-INF/license/SLF4J': Input/output error
rm: reading directory `CPMDL60PERF.war/WEB-INF/license/BSD': Input/output error

I have not tried to reboot yet

reboot worked thanks