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Ubuntu server mounted in read-only?

This morning my Ubuntu server suddenly appeared in read-only mode. Google says this can happen after updates. I restarted the server and it booted with fsck errors: Inodes that were parts of a corrupted orphan linked list…
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file system is going into read only mode frequently

My server file system is going into read only mode frequently. If I reboot my system, It is performing a fsck operation on disks. But, It is exited with exit status 4 ( File system errors left uncorrected) and it is asking to perform fsck manually.…
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Compact Flash mounted Read Only

I have a board, running linux (RedHat, kernel: 2.4.32). The board has been up and running since long time. However suddenly, some errors are being observed in the logs, and the Compact Flash (present on the board) gets mounted as read-only. Here are…
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how change nginx temp & log folder or disable logging completely

I'm running nginx 1.3.5 under windows seven, I need to execute nginx directly from a read-only media (CD or DVD), but when I want to run it, it fails with this error: nginx: [alert] could not open error log file: CreateFile() "logs/error.log"…
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Debian crashed, file system is read-only and cannot backup - How Do I find/mount a USB drive?

We have a Debian server (vm's) here at work and the server crashed after a power failure. I can only boot the system in maintenance mode, and the whole file system is set to read only. I can run fsck though maintenance mode, however I would like to…
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network-mapped file system drops to read-only mid-stream, buffer I/O error with device mapper

Under linux 2.6 (CentOS 5.3 actually), I have a file system that works okay for a few minutes, then drops to read-only mode, while I am trying to read/write data to it. It is an ext3 file system referencing a luks (cryptsetup) device via…
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Unable to delete a folder? Read Only Attribute locked?

We have a Windows 2008 R2 with Oracle11g and I need to uninstall the server and to reinstall again. I was following this Oracle Uninstall guide here: http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/misc/ManualOracleUninstall.php Everything was going fine untill…
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Remount read-only device as read-write on xen guest

I have a xen guest machine running ubuntu 10.04 with a disk device marked as read only. Now if while the xen guest is running I mark the device as read-write how can I tell the guest it can now write to it? The obvious mount -o rw doesn't work it…
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Why Are Excel 2010 Files Locked By Logged-Off Or Account-Disabled Users

I manage IT for a medium sized company that shares a lot of Excel 2010 files between users at various times of the day. We're using a Terminal Server environment (S2008R2). Sometimes, a user will try to open an Excel file and get the message that…
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HD will go into readonly mode

I'm running into a problem with some disks on an Ubuntu system. They keep going into readonly mode. We have systems running in 5 different ski resorts and this problem has now occurred in 3 of them. The machines process movies and run a webserver…
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Problem modifying read-only files on Samba NAS

I have files on a Samba server in the local company network and accessing them from a Windows Vista machine. Usually, if I want to delete a directory containing read-only files, Windows simply deletes the whole folder anyway. However, when I do this…
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Image Management System with Different Levels of Access

I work in the graphics department for a real estate brokerage, and we deal with a lot of photos. Agents take the photos, upload them to me, I touch up and standardize the photos, then I add them to an in-house server for future use by the graphics…
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Delegate "Read" Ability to GPO's

Is there a way to allow a non-administrator to "read" (as in browse and look at the settings) of domain gpo's? I see in GPMC there is an option to allow delegation of "Read Group Policy Results data" but I'm not solid on whether that will provide…
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USB Drive becomes read-only after a while

Our backup "solution" includes hooking up a USB drive to the backup server, and running a custom script that rsyncs the data on to the USB drive. However, after a while, the drive becomes read-only. Here's the output of dmesg: [2502923.708171] …
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Debian server showing "read only file system" repeatedly

I am having issues with being unable to SSH into my server, running Debian 11. If I try to make a folder or file, I get an error that says mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/tmp/test’: Read-only file system. As suggested by this link, and a large…
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