From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Clewett Subject: Re: Kernel Panic Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 15:22:00 +0100 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3E918988.2080809@roadrunner.uk.com> References: <3E8F7C30.21091.31D33A@localhost> <3E918074.1080102@roadrunner.uk.com> <16392.164.11.204.246.1049723331.squirrel@jharris.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <16392.164.11.204.246.1049723331.squirrel@jharris.homeip.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Jamie Harris Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org The filesystem are ext2 and ex3: Filesystem Type 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 ext3 37038 1860 33296 6% / /dev/hdc1 ext3 1969 119 1750 7% /apache /dev/hda1 ext2 30 6 23 19% /boot /dev/hdc3 ext2 37560 279 35373 1% /var/spool/mail /dev/hdc4 ext2 35087 76 33229 1% /home The kernel panic mensions journal.o so I guess this must be an ext3 partision? Probably on the '/' as no files in the 'apache' are ever effected. I am not sure about the hardware, it's not easy to check, but I belive my /dev/hda is a 40Gb someting purchaced a year back. On IDE. Either a Seagate, a Fujisu or a Western Digital. (Can't get cover off as rack-mounted and rack screwed into removable cover :) I hope you can help me, as the implications of an old kernel or an old disk have radically different fix's :) Ben Jamie Harris wrote: > Sounds to me like you have bad sectors on your harddisk that the > journalling file system is trying to work around. What file system are > you using and what hardware? > > cheers > > Jamie... > > >>Dear Linux Admin, >> >>On Linux 2.4 I have had three Kernel Panics recently. >> >>They include the following: journal.o "( ret != 0 )". I see in the >>source code that there is an assertion: J_ASSERT(ret != 0) in the >>function: >> >>unsigned long journal_bmap(journal_t *journal, unsigned long blocknr) >> >>Which looks like a possible place for the origin of this. >> >>There is also a large amount of Hex data, which I do not have, unless >>logged somewhere on my system unknown to me. (I don't get many Panics, >>not sure where panic data is logged...) >> >>On reboot I loose files. Although nothing serious yet. >> >>The system is a POP3 server, handling about 1,000 email files and about >>10,000 email's a day, so there is constantly great disk load by sendmail >> and the default redhat POP3. >> >>Should I upgrade my kernel, or may I be doing something specific to >>cause this? >> >>Thanks with any help, >> >>Ben Clewett. >> >>- >>To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" >>in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > >