I recently installed Fedora Core 3, and have been having problems woi my file system becoming read only. I'll have it working for a day or so, and then everything will become read only. Shutting down gives a whole load of errors, as does starting up.

I've searched a few forums, and every now and then someone will have a possible answer, but nothing seems definite. Does anyone know of the actual reason that it occurs.

I'm on a dual opteron system, and am dual booting with XP, but each boot is on a physically different hard drive, and I haven't had any problems with GRUB. I have a Quadro FX 500, and haven't gotten to the point where the updated NVIDIA drivers are installed yet.

There's also 700 or so updates in Up2date, and I haven't installed all of those. I have updated the kernel drivers to the newest however.

If anyone has any idea of what is wrong, or if anyone knows of a definite fix, that would be much appreciated.

Or should I just wait for Fedora Core 4?

Thanks in advance

What does your /etc/fstab look like? Anything mounted ro there? What errors do you get? Might help if you post some technical info

I'm having the same problem with Debian Sarge and FC3. I can boot and everything works fine. After 10 minutes or so the fs is suddenly ro. I don't know why!
Yesterday i downloaded the hdd tools for my maxtor drive and zero filled it. it tooks about 10 hours. i will update my bios, too.
If this is all done, i will give it a try and post it here. Maybe it is a physikal/logical hdd error. If this does not work i will change the hdd, too. I hope this will fix the problem.

Well, I can't access fstab in any way that I can copy the contents to display here, but I have 2 physical hard drives. The first hard drive has WindowsXP, and the second has 3 partitions. One is "/" ext3, one for /home ext3, and one as swap. Everything in fstab looks normal. The Windows partitions are set to be read only, but nothing else is. The problem also starts while I'm in Linux, not when I restart.

I've tried installing a couple times, and after a few hours the same thing happens.

Here's the link that I found about the problem, but I've tried everything in it with the exception of updating udev, since I was trying to fix this without installing at the moment.

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-42448.html


In any case, I'll probably just try Fedora Core 4.

Well, the same problem started happening in Fedora 4. My hard drives are connected from a PCI ATA/133 card.

Anyone have any ideas?

Hello,
This is a very interesting problem you have there.

As ReefShark suggested, a copy of your /etc/fstab could be very useful...

Cybers19 any news?

Particularly because it not only holds the mountpoints, but also options that might be a possible cause
The loads of errors might also proof useful in troubleshooting this.

Hi all!

maybe my problem is solved!

As it seems i have corrupt ram in my computer. I removed the damaged ram and since that, i doesn't get errors anymore.

The corrupt ram also gave some errors during installation of any distribution. I alwas got an md5sum error and now i can install everything without any errors.

Maybe you should try this, too!

Cybers19, thank you for taking the time to send us this update.

I would have never thought of it!

I did not think about ram, too.

My other problem was, that i could not install suse 9.3 and fc3 with some md5sum errors. The strange thing was, that on every try i got another package.

complete post: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=333363

So as i resolved this error, the error about ro hdd was suddenly gone.

Don't thow it in the trash, you can actually still use it!