read only file system - not by design

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 19:13 -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> As I was typing away a few minutes ago on an FC3 machine back a the office, it
> suddenly said "read only file system" and refused to write anything. After a
> few minutes of poking around, I rebooted. The machine has not come back up.
> 
> For when I get in tomorrow: What's the most likely cause of a file system
> suddenly going read only?
> -- 
>   Steve 
>    
> 

Drive failure?
Especially since it was sudden did not reboot.

Try the CD and rescue mode to see what you can find.