[Discuss] Discuss Digest, Vol 100, Issue 4

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Chaos_Fields wrote on 2022-07-13 22:47:

> I was hoping somebody could please help me somehow. I was using my 
> laptop running a Debian based operating system with full disk encryption 
> and I started noticing recently that sometimes I would start getting a 
> nonsensical box pop up on screen saying that my hard disk is a “read 
> only” file system and cannot complete some kind of operation or 
> another.

Does this happen after the system has gone into sleep mode?

If so, I wonder if it's not unlocking the file system when it awakens?


> Then I would start having issues with not being 
> able download files from the internet or change anything on the hard 
> drive but it would go back to being normal and fine only after reboot.

That does sound like the FS needs unlocking again.


What encryption method? LUKS, cryfs, ...?



> I 
> couldn’t find working solutions online. So this most recent time this 
> happened and I rebooted and entered my passphrase in grub then 
> it proceeded towards the login screen but the system would drop to a 
> black busybox screen just before loading login screen. It seems to be 
> failing to mount the system. I’m not dual-booting with anything though.

Ouch.

At this point, I'd try to unlock FS from the command line. I've had to 
do this once or twice ages ago when a cryfs KDE vault went wonky.


Not sure how helpful any of this is, but hoping there's something in 
here that leads to a solution.

Keep us posted on your progress, and good luck!