Read only system suddenly
Today my bazzite has gone into read only. Yesterday it was working normally. Now I can't open any flatpaks that worked fine yesterday, cant install anything, cannot create folders anywhere. Im basically locked out of my own system completely. How do i fix this?
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bazzite has always been a read only filesystem afaik
your drive might be on the brink of death
no idea how to check personally but I would make a backup of everything asap
well before jumping to that are you talking about the os or is your drive itself literally read-only now
Luckily the drive has basically nothing as i have just recently switched to bazzite
Think its the whole drive as i cant create folders anywhere. Trying to run any flatpak through terminal just gives errors. Trying to install a flatpak from bazaar returns errors citing read only drive
run
lsblk in terminal and send output
..at least if you want to
either the drive itself is on the brink of death or the file system is corrupted and we can check which is itlets do
sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sda
this command just creates a long self-test on the ssd
it can take awhile tho
like a long whilei got time to let it do its thing, my guess is on the ssd being almost dead. i had a big component failure early last month, that basically made my whole pc non functional. likely caused by a power surge. or thats my theory anyway. multiple components went to shit. got some replacement parts from a friend, as i dont have funds for a fully new system. But its still been non-stop troubleshooting. first with mint and now with bazzite. so the power surge probably fried the ssd on some level.
did you install bazzite before the power surge?
or was it mint
cause if it was powered on with the same install and had the power surge it's hopefully just some corrupted system files and not something hardware level
was on windows before the surge. my mobo got fried and my win10 code was hardware locked. hated win11 on my laptop, so switched to linux
oof
Made the mistake of closing firefox, and it wont relaunch, so cant directly copy paste the result of the smartctl test
ok now lets open the full logs of the test
sudo smartctl -x /dev/sda
pictures are fine no worries abt that
as long as it doesn't look like there's vaseline over the lensThose should have everything
now I'm not a dev nor a really smart person but
Solution
0x0001 4 0 Command failed due to ICRC error seems to be the issuewhich is the ssd
so it seems like it needs to be replaced
I mean it could be a faulty cable or some sort of bad connection
but
I was afraid that might be the issue. Thanks for the help 🙂
"Command failed due to ICRC error" means there was a problem with the data being transmitted over sata or whatever interface it's using (I think)
no problemo sorry about that mayne
was hoping it was just file system corruption