Re: ext3 bug

[Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>]

On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:04 am, Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looks like I ran into an ext3 bug (or at least the log says so). I got a
> bunch of messages like:
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: aborting transaction: Journal has aborted in
> __ext3_journal_get_undo_access<2>EXT3-fs error (device sda2) in
> ext3_free_blocks_sb: Journal has aborted
> EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks in system
> zones -Block = 228, count = 1
>
> It happened while I was doing an "rm -rf" on a directory. The "rm" gave
> a segfault and now I can't unmount the filesystem: unmount says "device
> is busy", even though lsof reports nothing. The filesystem is on a USB
> hard disk. The actual dump is in attachment. I'm running Debian unstable
> with a custom 2.6.10 kernel on a 1.6 GHz Pentium-M.
>
> 	Jean-Marc

Please try stock kernel. 2.6.11-rc3 onwards should be fine. - I saw a similar 
problem while running 2.6.10 kernel from Fedora Core 3. It doesn't happen 
with stock kernels.

Parag