[TriLUG] Strange happenings are afoot at the up2date..

[Brian Henning]

Hi All,
  Today as I was running up2date --nox -u, all of a sudden scads of error 
messages started scrolling by, and the main jist of them all was that 
(seemingly) the root filesystem had suddenly, magically switched to being 
read-only.  Furthermore, I couldn't ^C or switch terminals (I was at the 
local console).  I ended up finally Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the thing, and many 
more error messages scrolled past as the machine attempted to shut 
everything down.
  Upon bootup, it went into maintenance mode, and there were a bunch of 
orphaned and/or deleted inodes it had to fix on /..  So my question is, 
certainly this isn't normal, but is there a more-or-less simple explanation 
of why that might happen?  Everything seems to be back up normally now, with 
the presumed exception of the files that formerly held those inodes (which 
all seemed to be kde docs, so no big loss there).

If it matters, the packages being updated were concerning kde.

Thanks y'all..
~Brian

P.S.  Anyone with any comments on my earlier RAID question?  Seems a little 
sensitive for just a TIAS...

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