[juneau-lug] Re: Recent power outage problems

  • From: "Stephen E. Bodnar" <sbodnar@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 01:41:42 -0800

That's what happens to non-journalling filesystems when they don't 
"sync" before they are shut down. You can get all kinds of goofy 
filesystem errors. Was it an ext2? Did it fsck on boot?

Stephen

>As a result of the recent power outage, I'm unable to load MySQL. I
>couldn't understand where it was erroring so I reinstalled it, and now I
>think I know how come it isn't loading.
>
>When I try to install the default databaes (scripts/mysql_install_db),
>mysql tells me:
>
>- scripts/mysql_install_db: cannot create temp file for here document:
>Read-only file system
>- Installation of grant tables failed!
>
>I did some looking in the MySQL manual. For some reason I'm unable to
>write to my '/tmp'. I checked and '/tmp' is setup w/ the right modes
>(1777). When I reset the mode 'chmod 1777 /tmp', chmod sets them but
>tells me that '/tmp' is a ready-only file system. I can't create or even
>copy a file to '/tmp'. Vi won't let me save and cp tells me:
>
>- Osok:/home/bdk# cp test.123 /tmp
>- cp: cannot create regular file `/tmp/test.123': Read-only file system
>
>Is '/tmp' suppose to be a ready-only? How do I unread-only '/tmp'?
>Things were working just fine before the power outage.
>
>My Microsoft lobe suggested that I try rebooting the machine to see if
>that would clear the problem.
>
>2 minutes later.
>
>Problem cleared.
>
>Anyone know why '/tmp' would be write protected?
>
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