R/W mount of / denied

[Steve Bertrand]

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

I get from the OP's message that it is a 'headless' (quote
"terminal-less") server, and it's difficult for him to run fsck. I believe
he is asking how to mitigate this problem so it doesn't continue to happen
(fix so fsck runs by itself?).

We have ~15 FBSD servers, and I only ever had one do this to me. I never
did find out the problem, but the box was with old hardware and we simply
replaced it.

I'm curious to know if someone else has an answer.

OP, I hope I understand what you are saying properly.

Steve

>
> 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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