Re: Kernel BUG in ext3 (2.4.18pre1)

Ruth Ivimey-Cook (Ruth.Ivimey-Cook@ivimey.org)
Fri, 19 Apr 2002 20:51:38 +0100


At 23:39 18/04/2002, you wrote:
>Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: Assertion failure in
> > __journal_file_buffer() at transaction.c:1935: "jh->b_jlist < 9"
> > Apr 17 23:20:01 gatemaster kernel: kernel BUG at transaction.c:1935!
>
>That's the first time this has been reported. Conceivably,
>ext3 has corrupted the journal_head. More conceivably, some
>other part of the kernel scribbled on it. Most conceivably,
>your memory flipped a bit.
>
>Best I can suggest is that you give the machine an overnight
>run with memtest86.

I gave the machine a 2-hour run with memtest 2.9. It passed one basic test
and 3 extended tests before I decided the website the machine serves just
had to get back online :-/

I suppose I could try again sometime, but with 0 errors from memtest, I
would prefer not to if I can...

Ruth

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