From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 23:00:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 23:00:33 -0500 Received: from h68-147-110-38.cg.shawcable.net ([68.147.110.38]:61424 "EHLO schatzie.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 23:00:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:09:56 -0700 From: Andreas Dilger To: Beneath Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BUG: EXT3: linux-2.4.21-pre5 Message-ID: <20030303210956.M1373@schatzie.adilger.int> Mail-Followup-To: Beneath , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030304024714.647cc75d.ishikodzume@beneath.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030304024714.647cc75d.ishikodzume@beneath.plus.com>; from ishikodzume@beneath.plus.com on Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 02:47:14AM +0000 X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mar 04, 2003 02:47 +0000, Beneath wrote: > All of a sudden, and not during any heavy disk writing sessions or > anything, things seem to stop loading up. I.e. the system is still very > much alive, just anything that requires disk access will hang. It's > happened both times in X, and i was able to switch back to VT1, where > the following error messages awaited me: > (this is as much as i could write down) > > Several of these two messages: > EXT3-FS error (device ide0(3,2)) in ext3 reserve_inode_write: IO failure > EXT3-FS error (device ide0(3,2)) in ext3_get_inode ... (this then > scrolled off the screen before i could transcribe it) So, could you check in /var/log/messages (or whatever) to see if you have the original error? It might not have been written to disk if the error is on the /var filesystem. If that is the case, is it possible for you to set up a serial console or network syslog to capture the full errors? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/