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jeff wrote:
> Please forgive me... I have committed the sin of trying to update
> Ubuntu. It downloads and unpacks, then the errors start.
>
> Googling seems to point to a possible read-only issue, which might also
> explain why Firefox won't let me dl anything (saves to /tmp) and my
> external usb drive won't mount.
>
> `mount' indicates [rw, errors: read only] for the system partition.
> when I reboot, it comes up with errors, which I fsck and reboot. No
> complaints til I'm already in the system.
>
> Suggestions?
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> [output of system update]
> E:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.31-20-generic_2.6.31-20.58_amd64.deb:
> failed to delete
> '//lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.ko.dpkg-tmp'
> E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.31-20_2.6.31-20.58_all.deb:
> error ensuring `/var/lib/dpkg/reassemble.deb' doesn't exist
> E:
> /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.31-20-generic_2.6.31-20.58_amd64.deb:
> error ensuring `/var/lib/dpkg/reassemble.deb' doesn't exist
> E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-libc-dev_2.6.31-20.58_amd64.deb: error
> ensuring `/var/lib/dpkg/reassemble.deb' doesn't exist
>
> en `/var/lib/dpkg/status' for writing status information: Read-only file
> system
> touch: cannot touch `/var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-run-stamp': Read-only
> file system
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
> A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
> dpkg: unable to access dpkg status area: Read-only file system
>
>
> E: Failed to write commit log
>
>
>
Is /usr mounted as ro? What does cat /etc/fstab give you? If /boot and
/usr are mounted ro then you need to remount them with:
mount -o remount,rw /usr
mount -o remount,rw /boot
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