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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: gene.heskett@verizon.net
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: journal aborted, system read-only
Date: 16 Sep 2004 11:48:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095331734.1958.3.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409160103.35665.gene.heskett@verizon.net>

Hi,

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 06:03, Gene Heskett wrote:

> >Well, we really need to see _what_ error the journal had encountered
...
> It just did it to me again, this time with 2.6.9-rc1-mm5.

> And as usual in these cases, the logs are spotlessly clean 
> because /var is on /, which is on /dev/hda7, an syslog couldn't write 
> when its read-only.

Possibility the first is to create a separate partition for /var;
possibility the second is to set up a serial console.  Without access to
that log information, all we know is "there was an IO error," and that's
really not enough to narrow down the search. :-)

Thanks,
 Stephen


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-16 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-12 15:28 Gene Heskett
2004-09-13 15:12 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-09-14  1:14   ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-14  3:37   ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-14  9:37     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2004-09-14 11:01       ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-16  5:03   ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-16 10:48     ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2004-09-16 13:21       ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-16  6:34   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-09-16 13:36     ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-17 16:30       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-09-17 17:19         ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-18  9:55           ` Martin Diehl
2004-09-21  8:50   ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-21  9:53     ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-21 14:37       ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-21 15:00         ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-21 14:14     ` Gene Heskett

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