Hello,
First of all I have been running Ubuntu just fine for about 3 days no problems on this new installation of Hardy. However, just the day before yesterday and yesterday I got this error message on boot up:

"* the root file system is currently mounted in read-only mode"
"A maintenance shell will now be started"
Then is continues to fail all the way up to the fsck which I ran.

I was able to recover it, but then just yesterday it came back. I tried reseting all the file permissions via "chmod 777 /home/" and a few other commands I found on the forums.

Please see the full messages below:








Now the system comes to the logo and makes a freezing halt.

I'd prefer not to have to reinstall to fix this, as I have dial-up the updates took forever.

On thinking back on the only to programs I installed before this happened was aMule and KVIrc. Do you suppose something was modded? I got it right from the package manager, but I've heard KAD network can be exploited. I have been running firestarter and AVG no problems before this and it said my system was clean..

Please if anyone knows anything post, I really would like to get my computer working again as now I lost everything until I can log back in. (I can read the drive via the livecd as I said though I'd prefer not to reinstall everything) HELP.