Nic Doye schrieb:
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> On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 10:36, Simon Matter wrote:
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> > You did not tell us which kernel you're on.
>
> Sorry. I think many variables changed at once (hence never reporting
> it). Personally, I view it as my own stupid fault.
>
> Factors that changed:
> 1) went from sane disk layout to dumb disk layout
> 2) went from RH 7.1 to RH 7.2
> 3) went from 2.4.3 to 2.4.9-21 (and onto 31) (Both of these 2.4.9's are
> your excellent contrib kernels which I also use on my real machines)
You should ugrade to the 1.1 release of 2.4.9-31. The 'remount readonly'
is fixed there. Please let us know if this helps.
-Simon
>
> > Anyway, if it's the "remount readonly bug" I could explain it like this:
> > Before you had /home on a separate partition and this one was unmounted
> > on reboot and therefore all data was cleanly written to the disk.
> > Now your /home is on the / partition and therefore on reboot your /home
> > is remounted readonly and this could leave to data loss if your kernel
> > is affected by this bug. Just put a 'sleep 40' in the halt script before
> > root gets remounted readonly and try it.
>
> This sounds perfectly feasible. I'll do some tests to see.
>
> nic
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