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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3 journel aborted in 2.6.0-mm1
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 17:24:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031228172450.413cfa5c.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FEF5E53.1080203@wmich.edu>

Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu> 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.


      reply	other threads:[~2003-12-29  1:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-28 22:50 ext3 journel aborted in 2.6.0-mm1 Ed Sweetman
2003-12-29  1:24 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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