On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 08:59:51AM +1000, CaT wrote: > Had to leave the house quickly today so this is not as complete as I Back home now so I can type out the oops: EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010883 (2.6.5) EIP is at cascade+0x20/0x4c eax: d7735fcc ebx: d7735fcc ecx: 00000000 edx: c03e5f50 esi: x03960dc edi: c03957a0 ebp: c03e5f30 esp: c03e5f24 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=c03e4000 task=x0392960) Stack: 00000000 c043d208 c03957a0 c03e5f58 c011b241 c03957a0 c0395fac 00000026 00000000 c043d208 0000000a c03e5f50 c03e5f50 c03e5f74 c0117c6f c043d208 00000000 00000000 c03e2a00 00000046 c03e5f8c c01083fd c03e4000 0009ff00 Call Trace: [] run_timer_softirq+0x4d/0x124 [] do_softirq+0x4f/0x9c [] do_IRQ+0x101/0x114 [] common_interrupt+0x18/0x20 [] default_idle+0x0/0x2c [] default_idle+0x26/0x2c [] cpu_idle+0x2b/0x3c [] _stext+0x1c/0x20 [] start_kernel+0x13c/0x140 Code: 0f 0b 72 01 29 92 31 c0 8b 1b 50 57 e8 8f fd ff ff 83 c4 08 <0>Kernel panic: Fatal exception in interrupt In interrupt handler - not syncing That is all that I have on the screen. The mb is a Gigabyte 5ax v5.2 (f4 version of the bios). Full specs here: http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/Products/Products_GA-5AX%20(Rev%205.2).htm Also I've attached the lspci, .config and /proc/interrupt outputs to the file. Below is the rest of the initial msg. If you need help from me just holler and I'll get to it ASAP. > would like. The situation is as follows: I have a k6-500 on an ali1541 > (from memory) ide chipset. All channels filled with 3 hds and 1 cdrom. > 2 hds on the asme port at ata66, one at ata33 and the cdrom at whatever > it's on. ;) The system boots up normally and light use is just fine. > When I backup my laptop to it though I can repeatedly bring the system > down. The end result is an oops on the screen in soft_irq_timer that > came from cpu_idle. (I had no time to write it down). The following, > just before the oops was logged: > > Apr 5 01:14:35 nessie kernel: Assertion failure in journal_add_journal_head() a > t fs/jbd/journal.c:1679: "(((&bh->b_count)->counter) > 0) || (bh->b_page && bh-> > b_page->mapping)" > Apr 5 01:14:35 nessie kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ > Apr 5 01:14:35 nessie kernel: kernel BUG at fs/jbd/journal.c:1679! > > The backup was an rsync over the net. > > There have been other problems with the system. It liked my promise > card in it even less (old driver variety) but nothing ever did get > logged. > > If you need mroe info, please yell and I'll try to answer from memory > and I'll try to give oops details when I get home (please specify what > details you're most interested in so that I don't have to type it all > in if possible :). -- Red herrings strewn hither and yon.