Read-only file system

[WildFyre]

Well obviously I broke something somehow. I rebooted my server for the first time in the past 95 days, and it came up and nothing was running. Luckily I was able to SSH into it and whatever I do, I get:
Read-only file system

I saw another post and read it but didn't give any information on how to fix it. Help is MUCH appreciated considering my server is down and I'm now panicing.

Thanks in advance!!

 

[jmstacey]

Try remounting the partition in read-write mode.

I'm not sure on the exact comand, but probably something like:
mount -o remount,rw /

What Operating System are you running?
Was there a power failure or HD failure that made you want to restart the server?

 

[WildFyre]

Yeah I ran across that command, it's actually: mount -o remount,rw /dev/hda3
for me at least.

I'm backtracking some steps and removing thing's I've installed recently to see if anything fixes the problem. Server was running for quite sometime since last reboot so hope I find it.

I'm running CentOS 3.4.

No, nothing really made me want to reboot. Just getting small errors and wanted to check on a few things to make sure they ran on startup. So rebooted and all hell broke loose. I guess since I now know the command so I can start removing and backtracking, it's up to me to find the problem. Just have to manually start everything. As long as I know how to take it out of read-only I'm not so paniced.

 

[jmstacey]

The logs might have more information.

In my experience the OS usually does this when something critical has become corrupt and needs your attention to keep things from sliding downhill. (like an emergency break of sorts)