Why does my root filesystem keep becoming read-only?

Solution 1:

In my experience if he system automatically decides to remount a medium read-only that either means that

  • the medium is broken
  • or the file-system on the medium is broken.

In the latter case a fsck run could help. But if a bad block has broken the file system chances are high that it won't be long before another bad block appears - possibly breaking something more vital.