From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 04:13:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 04:13:49 -0500 Received: from adsl-67-114-19-186.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net ([67.114.19.186]:65225 "HELO adsl-63-202-77-221.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 04:13:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3DFAF9EF.6000501@tupshin.com> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:29:19 -0800 From: Tupshin Harper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: JDIRTY JWAIT errors in 2.4.19 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org i'm getting the following error logged every 11 seconds or so: Dec 14 01:00:49 phylum kernel: vs-3050: wait_buffer_until_released: nobody releases buffer (dev 16:01, size 4096, blocknr 2916352, count 3, list 0, state 0x10019, page c1172108, (UPTODATE, CLEAN, UNLOCKED)). Still waiting (-1320000000) JDIRTY !JWAIT Also, some processes are blocking, include ps (so I can't get a complete process list), and shutdown. This is on an old PII that's been up with no problems for about a month. Is this a known problem? Is there any way to force a clean shutdown in such circumstances? Is this associated with reiserfs which all partitions are running? A googling turned up one or two references to this problem, but never with a kernel as recent as 2.4.19, and associated with, though not necessarily blamed on reiserfs. This machine is still up, so if more info would be useful, it can probably be provided. Most processes are still working fine. -Tupshin