On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:27:04PM +1100, Daniel Jitnah wrote:
Is it fair to assume that the problem was caused by something that the cloud provider has done? Or could it be something on server OS side?
it's probably not your VM but it's more likely to be a fault or outage than something the cloud provider has deliberately done. breaking running VMs is something that most providers would try to avoid.
What can cause this?
most likely the VM's disk image became unavailable temporarily - possibly due to network problems, or a server being rebooted. it's hard to be more specific than that because there are countless ways of setting up a cloud server.
(I am thinking the virtual disk hosting the VM has become readonly somehow, but how? )
assuming you are using ext2/3/4 on your VM's disk - the mount option "errors=remount-ro" says to remount the fs as read-only if the kernel has any errors accessing the filesystem (e.g. if a disk is dead/dying or the cable is loose etc). debian at least, and probably other distros, routinely adds "errors=remount-ro" to /etc/fstab for ext filesystems when you build the system. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au> BOFH excuse #67: descramble code needed from software company