R/W mount of / denied

[Ruben de Groot]

Why don't you do what the message says: run fsck ?

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:12:26AM +0200, Lutz Petersen typed:
> After a system crash (e.g. a power failure), the terminal-less FreeBSD 
> 5.2.1-RELEASE I run does not boot up properly any more. Here is an 
> excerpt from /var/log/messages:
> 
> Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
> Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: R/W mount of / denied. 
> Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
> Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: R/W mount of / denied. 
> Filesystem is not clean - run fsck
> Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: /home was not properly dismounted
> Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted
> Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted
> Jul 25 20:18:04 server kernel: WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted
> 
> As a result, BIND does not start up any more, which leaves my FreeBSD 
> box in an unusable state (no internet connection, no network connections 
> that use DNS). I did not experience this behaviour with 4-STABLE. What's 
> wrong here?
> 
> The other day I read about a misconfiguration of /etc/fstab (wrong 
> fs_passno), which prevented FreeBSD from doing the usual consistency 
> checking at startup time. My fstab is looking fine however.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated,
> Lutz
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