Help please: I'm running SuSE 9.0 on an athlon with the most recent SuSE stock kernel. Since attempting to archive my home directory a couple of days ago I have been having progressively more serious problems, culminating this morning when I couldn't log in, even in failsafe mode. As the system boots I get a series of "failed" messages that seem to focus on being unable to touch files or change permissions on them. The final message before the boot prompt is: Failed services in runlevel 5: random SuSEfirewall2_init hotplug resmgr SuSEfirewall2_setup SuSEfirewall2_final ptal acipd postfix kbd cron xdm Skipped services in runlevel 5; smbfs When I attempt to log in either as a user or root I get the following message: FATAL: cannot change permissions of TTY: Read-only file system I have booted into the rescue system and run reiserfsck on all the partitions: /, /boot, /opt, & /home. No errors are logged. I can mount each of the partitions under the rescue system and have created text files on each of the partitions so I don't think the problem is a corrupted file system. Any suggestions as to where to go from here will be appreciated. Thanks, George -- Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. Emo Philips