Re: Make filesystem read-write.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:45:30PM +0100, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Thanks to Oliver's suggestion, I can now login from the thin client 
> using a tty. I've played around with it and it turns out that the client 
> is mounting the file system as read-only:
> 
> $ cat > hello
> -bash: hello: Read-only file system.
> 
> 
> This would explain why I can't login from the GUI. When you login, X and 
> Gnome will write a bunch of files to your home. And if it can't, you get 
> kicked out. I've seen this before.

You login to GNOME on the server side, not on the client side.  There are
tmpfs mounts configured to allowt X to work.

The fact that this is working for others should be enough indication that we
did not overlook such an obvious necessity.  Could you read the relevant
logs (ldm.log and Xorg.0.log) and see what is really happening?

> Can anyone think of a reason why the client would be mounting / as 
> read-only? And how to make it not do that?

This is necessary in order for multiple clients to share the root filesystem
on the server.

-- 
 - mdz