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Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

From Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Stretch installation boots to read only
Date 2015-12-22 04:50 +0100
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On 12/21/2015 07:19 PM, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> I Just upgraded from jessie to stretch. I needed a piece of software
>> that wasn't available in jessie. Since then, my system boots to a
>> command line prompt. Since /dev/sda1 has been mounted ro, Xwindows
>> doesn't start. I have to log in as root, run mount -o remount,rw
>> /dev/sda1 /, exit from root and then run startx each time I reboot the
>> system. If i run mount -a, an error occurs in fstab at line 9 which
>> happens to be the mounting instructions for /dev/sda1. I re-wrote the
>> line to read /dev/sda1    /  ext4  rw, noatime    0   1 and commented
>> out the old line. The error still happens at the same place.
> Without you providing the exact error nobody will be able to help you.
>
> So please paste the complete /etc/fstab as it is without any
> modifications, deletions or alterations, the output of "systemctl
> --failed" without any omissions and the exact error you get after "mount
> -a" without any own interpretations.
>
> Grüße,
> Sven.
>
I believe that there should not be any spaces in the options, so if the 
line in /etc/fstab actually reads:

	/dev/sda1    /  ext4  rw, noatime    0   1

It should be:

	/dev/sda1    /  ext4  rw,noatime     0   1


Marc

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Stretch installation boots to read only Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net> - 2015-12-22 02:10 +0100
  Re: Stretch installation boots to read only Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2015-12-22 04:30 +0100
    Re: Stretch installation boots to read only Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-12-22 04:50 +0100
      Re: Stretch installation boots to read only Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2015-12-22 06:20 +0100
        Re: Stretch installation boots to read only Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net> - 2015-12-22 09:00 +0100
          Re: Stretch installation boots to read only Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-22 10:20 +0100
          Re: Stretch installation boots to read only anxiousmac@gmail.com - 2015-12-22 10:40 +0100
            Re: Stretch installation boots to read only(SOLVED) Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net> - 2015-12-22 21:40 +0100
              Re: Stretch installation boots to read only(SOLVED) Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2015-12-22 22:30 +0100
          consolekit in jessie (Re: Stretch installation boots to read only) Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2015-12-22 12:50 +0100

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