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dpkg couldn`t execute in a read-only root filesystem

Asked by wally

Good day, everyone:
I used to install dpkg packages in my embedded arm board with a nand flash, and my initrd will mount all my entire root filesystem as aufs, and I can 'temporary' install dpkg packages.

And recently I change my kernel and removed initrd, so now I have to mount aufs after boot in linux, and "/" can`t be mounted as aufs after this change, but the others(etc, var, usr etc...) still can mounted as aufs, and cause a big problem --- It can`t install any dpkg packages!

When I type something like: "sudo dpkg -i udiskie_0.4.2-atrust1-1_armel.deb", and system will spill out the following:

dpkg: error processing udiskie_0.4.2-atrust1-1_armel.deb (--install):
unable to securely remove '//..dpkg-tmp': Read-only file system

This confuse me, I don`t think it need "/" writeable to install packages.Could someone please teach me why this happen? I will be so grateful.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try:

sudo mount -o remount,ro /

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wally (wally-yeh) said : 		#2

to actionparsnip:
    Thanks for help, and I tried, but no luck, still get the same error:

user@atrust-004CC8:/tmp$ sudo mount -o remount,ro /
user@atrust-004CC8:/tmp$ sudo dpkg -i udiskie_0.4.2-atrust1-1_armel.deb
(Reading database ... 25296 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace udiskie 0.4.2-atrust1-1 (using udiskie_0.4.2-atrust1-1_armel.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement udiskie ...
dpkg: error processing udiskie_0.4.2-atrust1-1_armel.deb (--install):
 unable to securely remove '//..dpkg-tmp': Read-only file system
Errors were encountered while processing:
 udiskie_0.4.2-atrust1-1_armel.deb

and I cat /proc/mounts:
user@atrust-004CC8:/tmp$ cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root / squashfs ro,relatime 0 0
devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=308564k,nr_inodes=77141,mode=755 0 0
none /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /wfs/aufs tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
/aufs /usr aufs rw,relatime,si=55617531 0 0
/aufs /var aufs rw,relatime,si=55617231 0 0
/aufs /etc aufs rw,relatime,si=55617331 0 0
/aufs /home aufs rw,relatime,si=55617031 0 0
/aufs /sbin aufs rw,relatime,si=55617131 0 0
/aufs /bin aufs rw,relatime,si=55617e31 0 0
/aufs /lib aufs rw,relatime,si=55617f31 0 0
/aufs /opt aufs rw,relatime,si=55617c31 0 0
/aufs /root aufs rw,relatime,si=55617d31 0 0
/aufs /boot aufs rw,relatime,si=55617a31 0 0
/aufs /selinux aufs rw,relatime,si=55617b31 0 0
/aufs /srv aufs rw,relatime,si=55617831 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
none /var/run tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
none /var/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,mode=755 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,relatime,devgid=1002,devmode=664,busgid=1002,busmode=775,listgid=1002,listmode=664 0 0
ubi1_0 /.profile ubifs rw,relatime 0 0
ubi2_0 /opt/ubi_atb ubifs rw,relatime 0 0
ubi2_0 /lib/modules/2.6.37 ubifs rw,relatime 0 0
ubi1_0 /home/user/.config ubifs rw,relatime 0 0
ubi1_0 /home/user/.icons ubifs rw,relatime 0 0
svn:/ngtc /mnt nfs rw,relatime,vers=3,rsize=1048576,wsize=1048576,namlen=255,hard,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountaddr=192.168.0.4,mountvers=3,mountproto=tcp,local_lock=none,addr=192.168.0.4 0 0

It seems have two "/" mounted, one is rw, and another is ro, could it be the cause of my problem? if you have some idea, please let me know, and any advise will be appreciate.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Did you install with Wubi, or is it a true install?

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wally (wally-yeh) said : 		#4

to actionparsnip:
    Sorry, but I don`t understand what you mean, my ubuntu 10.04 file system is a squashfs, and I nand write to a nand flash.

    I use "root=/dev/mtdblock10 ro noswap rootfstype=squashfs mtdbadskip=root-fs" as kernel command line to boot.

    And below is my fstab in my squashfs :
user@atrust-004CC8:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# ACS Modified by auto-generation process
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/mtdblock10 / squashfs ro 0 0
#ubi1_0 /.profile ubifs defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,listuid=0,listgid=1002,listmode=0664,busuid=0,busgid=1002,busmode=0775,devuid=0,devgid=1002,devmode=0664 0 0

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wally (wally-yeh) said : 		#5

I very appreciate actionparsnip`s help.it inspire me more clues

I found a work arround, plus "--instdir=/tmp" will solve this issue, below is what I do:

user@atrust-004CC8:/tmp$ sudo dpkg -i --instdir=/tmp ./udiskie_0.4.2-atrust1-1_armel.deb
(Reading database ... 25296 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace udiskie 0.4.2-atrust1-1 (using .../udiskie_0.4.2-atrust1-1_armel.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement udiskie ...
Setting up udiskie (0.4.2-atrust1-1) ...
user@atrust-004CC8:/tmp$

but apt still need to find a way to set instdir like dpkg does.