Re: HD1000 booting up in read only mode?

I had the issue. What i discovered is that for some reason the FS was 
out of space. Once that happens, everything becomes unstable & your 
only option is to do a restore. I now monitor what i save in flash0.

Hope that helps.

Atul

On Jun 23, 2004, at 8:36 AM, BJ Johns wrote:

> This is pure speculation as I am not a Linux expert....
>
> But I have a user of WeatherSix who is having a problem in getting the
> application to save their updated locations list. This information is 
> stored
> in the '/mnt/flash0/etc/rokucascade/settings/com.roku.WeatherSix' file 
> by
> way of calls to the CascadeSettings class. In an attempt to resolve 
> this
> problem, I created a simple application for them which uses standard 
> file
> I/O calls and attempts to delete and then recreate the settings file 
> but
> this application also fails.
>
> It appears to me that the OS has gone into a protective read only 
> mode. In
> other terms, I think that the file system is mounting in read only mode
> because the "dirty" flag is set.  Again, this is pure speculation on my
> part.
>
> If this is the case, what can be done to remedy this situation short of
> reloading the OS on the internal flash memory? Note: The user is not
> familiar with Telnet and may not be able to Telnet into their unit.  
> But if
> they can, what would be the steps to run?
>
> Thanks
> -BJ Johns
>
>
>
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