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