read only files systems muffed up sql and apache

Hi There,

We have come across this once before.
The server was a HP / Compaq with a RAID1 disk system.

One of the disks in the RAID1 set went bad, so the RAID controller marked the disks read only.

Not sure if the whole filesystem is read only for you.

Regards,

Darren.

 

Such issues can actually be solved by logging to the server. But still if you provide more info people here can help you a bit better.

Paste the output of the commands:

mysql << Its for connecting Mysql server.
/etc/init.d/httpd configtest
/etc/init.d/httpd restart

It is possible that your server was rebooted and the partitions were mounted readonly. You can try the 'mount' command to mount the partitions as read/write.

mount -t ext2 -o rw,remount /dev/hdaxx

where,

xx is the partition number.

 

Linux based systems will automatically remount volumes as read-only if a
critical error is detected in the filesystem either from a pending drive failure
or corruption in the partition(s).

In that case, you should unmount the drives and run "fsck" to scan the drive
and find out what is going on and to get it out of "read only" status.

It would be wise to make a full backup of your drive as soon as possible
in case the read only was triggered by a pending drive failure.

Now with that said ...

It could also be as simple as your /tmp partition is just full!

To check your drive usage, you can run "df -h"

 

That's usually not a good idea. As Spiral has said, it's a protection mechanism that Linux uses to protect corrupt filesystems (if it's not just /tmp that's full or broken) in which case you should not tey and remount the volume RW as this could lead immediately to partition data corruption.

The correct course of action, as Spiral has said, is to ensure you have a good backup of your data and then run an FSCK on the disk either by dismounting or via a reboot with forced FSCK. If the FSCK fails, you'll need to get the disk replaced as it's then most likely a disk fault/head crash.

 

Thanks Chirpy for corrceting me.