From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262174AbTL2BY4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:24:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262176AbTL2BY4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:24:56 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:48780 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262174AbTL2BYz (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:24:55 -0500 Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 17:24:50 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Ed Sweetman Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext3 journel aborted in 2.6.0-mm1 Message-Id: <20031228172450.413cfa5c.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <3FEF5E53.1080203@wmich.edu> References: <3FEF5E53.1080203@wmich.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ed Sweetman wrote: > > Not sure what the cause of this type of error is but i've only seen it > in the very late test releases of 2.6.0 and now in the mm1 patch (i've > always used the mm branch of the test releases). It seems to like to > happen to my partition that has /var/ on it during an updatedb and log > rotate that is standard practice in most distributions. I'm using debian > unstable if that helps narrow the problem down, however it seems more > likely to be a kernel problem possibly in one of the patches that's been > in mm's tree for very recent test, and now release, kernels. > I'd need to see the kernel logs at the time when the abort happens. An internal filesystem inconsistency will certainly cause this. Force a fsck.