On Saturday 04 October 2003 09.39, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:

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After a reboot I got following message after the console login: clm-6005: writing mode 737 on readonly FS

My normal graphical login was absent and there is no login possibility after this message. Neither as root nor as user.

Before I go into my SuSE 8.2 with the rescue mode I would like to know what I should do and where I should start repairing. Any ideas. Need more info? Which?

For some reason the remount to read/write mode failed on bootup. This could be because you have edited fstab recently and put mount options the kernel doesn't understand (happened to me just recently).

If you haven't edited /etc/fstab since the last working reboot, my suggestion would be to boot the rescue disk and run an fsck on the partition (reiserfsck for reiserfs, e2fsck for ext2 or ext3 and so on)

Did not edit /etc/fstab as far as can remember. Know that Yast wanted to write something with regard of nfs in the fstab but that was all. Had some powersurges and the computer suddenly died even with a UPS. Looked up in /etc and found that in the fstab and the mtab there were only three lines. /dev /root /ext1 defaults 0 0 proc /proc defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 Nothing more. Is there a method to restore the mtab fstab automaticaly or should I try to write it out line by line? -- " Every little BYTE helps " NTReader v0.36w(P)/Beta (Registered) in conjunction with Net-Tamer.