Universal Blue•5w ago

Filesystem goes completely read-only a few minutes after logging into Bazzite.

Today, when I booted up my computer and logged into it, everything appeared to be normal. But after 5 minutes or so, I was unable to open anything with errors stating the apps are not writeable. Opening up Dolphin results in a bunch of popup windows saying configuration file is not writeable. Trying to do a ujust update results in the following error:

error: Staging deployment: Cleaning deployments: Removing ostree/deploy/default/deploy/9baccd717258a3fc7485ecdabe68fc67157afd5c59e9500e89fed13978d79391.1: unlinkat(kmenuedit.png): Read-only file system
System update failed: 
   0: Command failed: `/usr/bin/rpm-ostree upgrade`
   1: `/usr/bin/rpm-ostree` failed: exit status: 1

Location:
   src/steps/os/linux.rs:228

error: Staging deployment: Cleaning deployments: Removing ostree/deploy/default/deploy/9baccd717258a3fc7485ecdabe68fc67157afd5c59e9500e89fed13978d79391.1: unlinkat(kmenuedit.png): Read-only file system
System update failed: 
   0: Command failed: `/usr/bin/rpm-ostree upgrade`
   1: `/usr/bin/rpm-ostree` failed: exit status: 1

Location:
   src/steps/os/linux.rs:228

I am only able to open limited kde applications, but all open in Read-only mode. I am unable to open anything that requires writing to my user profile.

4 Replies

LucasOP•5w ago

Linus Xu•5w ago

Entire drive being RO usually means a temporary disconnect on the hardware level

LucasOP•5w ago

Couldn't find anything wrong. Drive didn't have any errors when scanning with smartctl, but BTRFS was definitely causing readonly. Ended up reinstalling bazzite, and everything is good now.

wolfyreload•5w ago

My guess is that you ended up with filesystem corruption in your BTRFS partition. If Linux detects corruption it will often make the filesystem readonly to prevent further corruption. If it's just a gaming box, a reinstall is probably easiest, like you did.

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Filesystem goes completely read-only a few minutes after logging into Bazzite.