On 03/10/2007, Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I've had Mutt working for some time but all of a sudden I get the > following (below). > > Trying to change permissions gives me > > > chmod: changing permissions of `/var/mail/adam.lock': Read-only file > > system > > Can anyone suggest a fix ?
Shut down your system immediately and boot sysrescuecd ( http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page) My first suspicion (i.e. the only times I saw that filesystems became read-only) is when the system decides that there are problems reading the disk (e.g. bad blocks) and remounts the file systems read-only. sysrescuecd (or maybe your distro's installation disks) should allow you to analyse the disk, check logs etc with minimal further damage to your FS. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
