[mythtv-users] MBE behavior after restart

Mike Carron jmcarron at starstream.net
Mon Sep 29 21:32:05 UTC 2014


On 09/29/2014 02:12 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Mike Carron <jmcarron at starstream.net> wrote:
> ....
>> The Read-only file system message repeated continuously until 11:00, which
>> is when I stopped attempting to get live tv. Any attempt to start live tv
>> from any FE simply restarted that error message. Needless to say,
>> /home/mythtv/livetv is not a Read-only file system as this from ls -l should
>> indicate:
>> (drwxr-xr-x 2 mythtv mythtv 12288 Sep 29 11:56 livetv).
> Actually, that has nothing to do with whether the file system is read only
> (it is possible to see a filesystem mounted on a CD-ROM with those
> permissions).
>
> Likely your system put the entire drive into read-only mode due to
> I/O errors.  Such messages would be in your logs (or, often, the dmesg
> output).  The causes can vary, but are more often due to a failing
> hard drive.  Best practice would be to run smartd on the system
> to monitor your hard drives.  Look for those messages too, and run
> smartctl to see if the drive logged I/O errors.  Since (future) filesystem
> reported errors (that force a drive to be read-only) can be a result
> of a long ago issue, you may want to consider running a full fsck
> on the volume.  Be aware that if the damage is bad enough, and
> you reply 'y' to enough prompts, you may end up deleting all your
> content.  You may wish to run a backup, or copy, first.
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Thanks, I was hoping it wouldn't be something like that.

mike




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