[00:26] hey hads [00:26] may I PM you? [00:57] workmate Ben sent you an email earlier just want to ask you a few things :) [02:22] chrismsnz: Sure, sorry for the delay. [18:22] morning [19:22] morning [20:55] morning [21:05] morning [21:45] good morning all [22:09] morning [22:30] hads: time out of sync? (re: Twitter) [22:37] morning [22:37] it seems my root filesystem has been mounted read-only [22:37] how do I change this? [22:37] or perhaps see why? [22:37] mount -o remount,rw / [22:37] and dmesg /var/log/syslog for why [22:38] if the modules hiccup in a bad way, it's common to go read-only as a safety measure [22:39] hmm... [22:39] mount: cannot remount block device /dev/sda1 read-write, is write-protected [22:39] WTF? [22:39] uh oh [22:39] just flip the write protect tab... [22:40] haha, very funny [22:40] did it go/stay read-only on boot, or did it just go read-only during operation? [22:40] ojwb: I had to think about that for a few moments... [22:40] I think it may have been on boot [22:40] thumper: disks going bad? [22:40] thumper: take a peak at the output of 'dmesg' and smartctl [22:40] :( [22:41] dmesg is full of mysql shitting itself [22:41] smartctl isn't installed [22:41] and can't be because / is read only [22:41] * thumper tries a reboot. [22:41] that works for windows, right? [22:41] thumper: got a LiveCD/USB handy? [22:41] hah, no [22:42] ouch [22:42] thumper: sure, it makes everything better [22:42] hmm... [22:42] not everything, you're still running windows after the reboot [22:42] thumper: does the BIOS show SMART data? [22:42] I'm sure you've got enough systems there to write a bootable usb stick [22:42] it is a little funny [22:42] as it is a single big disk broken up [22:43] so the machine is running fine... (ish) [22:43] but...? [22:43] the dirs /var, /home, and /tmp are all different partitions [22:43] sorry, had a leading / [22:43] which confused irc [22:43] thumper: and they all mounted fine? [22:44] the seem to be working fine [22:44] so a disk error in one part of the disk shouldn't cause the whole disk to go r/o [22:44] is there a command to get a list? [22:44] so /home is mounted fine [22:44] read/write [22:44] dmesg probably shows a pile of errors [22:44] yeah, dmesg is the best bet for reasons [22:45] 'dmesg | grep -4 sda' :) [22:45] oh also, look for scsi instead of sda too [22:47] hmm... [22:47] doesn't say much [22:48] ok rebooting... [22:49] * ajmitch waits to see if thumper will come back :) [22:50] yeah [23:07] ajmitch: I wonder if we can collect on the bet? :) [23:17] not looking good is it? [23:18] nope [23:25] poor chap [23:32] i lost three hard drives in six months back in 2009 [23:32] that was not a lot of fun [23:45] I should fix up my fun networking setup here, rsync between a VM on my laptop & my work desktop was going at ~300k/sec until I switched it to use ipv6