Bug#754340: Unable to run fsck manually when instructed to do so

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 06:18:28PM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> When booting into single user mode, things worked as expected.  I was
> unable to remount the fs read-only; the logs you requested are attached.
> (The mei_me messages have always been there, also with sysv init; I
> don't think they are related to the problem.)
Running fsck on a filesystem mounted in rw mode is a bad idea.
So instead of trying to fix things to remount the fs ro, fsck should
finish and succeed or fail *before* the filesystem is remounted rw.
This should sidestep the whole issue of remounting.
So I'd try to answer the question why the fs is mounted rw in the first
place.

Zbyszek