I went a slightly different root but my VPS is working now. Unfortunately I
now seem to be in apt-get hell if such a thing exists. (
http://askubuntu.com/questions/425777/trying-to-install-libapache2-mod-wsgi-on-ubuntu-12-04-but-it-says-i-have-unmetif
you're interested in the sordid details).
On 24 February 2014 00:16, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
> Hi Philip,
>
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 11:46:40PM +0000, Philip Hunt wrote:
> > I have a VPS, meowc.at, which was running Ubuntu 10.04. I upgraded to
> > 12.04, but now whenevenr I try to do anything to the filing system, it
> says
> > "Read-only file system".
>
> Try disabling filesystem barriers.
>
> To do this you'll need to:
>
> - Boot into rescue VM
>
> - mount /dev/xvda1 /mnt # for example
>
> - edit /mnt/etc/fstab to add "barrier=0" to the list of options for
> the root filesystem, so for example it would read like:
>
> /dev/xvda1 / ext3 defaults,relatime,barrier=0
>
> - umount /mnt
>
> - sudo halt
>
> - boot VPS
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
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