Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Cory Schmidt <sourcemage AT schmidtsite.us>]

My machine is an athlon-xp also, although I can't see how that would 
have anything to do with it. I'm running a 2.4.2x kernel (I can't 
remember if it's 23 or 24).

The man page for reiserfsck states that with the --check option you CAN 
check a read-only mounted reiserfs partition. From dufflebunk's previous 
email, mount was reporting that / was mounted rw but when he tried to 
create a file it failed saying / was mounted ro. So it sounds like 
there's some strange voodoo going on with mount. Does someone with more 
knowledge than me (almost everyone :-)) know how anything like that 
could happen with mount?

Eric Sandall wrote:

> Quoting Cory <cory AT schmidtsite.us>:
>
> > As a matter of fact my root partition is reiserfs. I also ended up just 
> > commenting out the checkfs call in my mountall.sh script so I could boot 
> > but the temporary solution doesn't quite sit well with me :-).
> >
> > Eric, reiserfsprogs was another of the spells that had been updated when 
> > I did the system update so maybe that was the culprit. Is it possible 
> > that the machines that don't have the problem are running a previous 
> > version of reiserfsprogs? If not I'd be happy to compare notes with you 
> > to see if we can get to the bottom of this.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Cory
>
>
> That's the strange thing. One of the machines that works fine is the one I
> tested the new version on before updating it in the grimoire (it's a p3), one
> machine that has the problem is an athlon-xp, and it updated from a grimoire
> update. Both are running the 2.6.3-mm1 kernel.
>
> -sandalle