From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:46:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:46:06 -0500 Received: from inet-mail3.oracle.com ([148.87.2.203]:55807 "EHLO inet-mail3.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:45:59 -0500 Message-ID: <3C3CD691.354986F3@oracle.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:47:29 +0100 From: Alessandro Suardi Organization: Oracle Support Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.5.2-pre10 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Lord CC: Linus Torvalds , Alexander Viro Subject: Re: ext3 umount oops in 2.5.2-pre10 In-Reply-To: <1010601760.29727.138.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> <3C3CC176.83F49A74@oracle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alessandro Suardi wrote: > > Steve Lord wrote: > > > > It looks like ext3 does not work if you do not use an external > > journal device - the journal_bdev field is not initialized and > > ext3_put_super goes belly up: > > I have seen the umount oops -but- not 100% of the time. No time > to copy the oops text since my laptop powers off, and as the > issue occurred two times out of five or six, I haven't yet had > a very strong need to hunt this further, confident someone more > clueful than me (possibly the vast majority of l-k :) would do > very soon. It looks like it happened. Heh. As always. > > > At the very least it needs this: > > [snipped patch] > > OK, going to the usual patch/build/reboot/test sequence now. Of course the last 252p10 shutdown saw the oops, leaving me with the doubt that I didn't attend all the shutdowns :/ And of course the patch makes the oops go away (four reboots in a row without any problem). Thanks ! Ciao, --alessandro "this machine will, will not communicate these thoughts and the strain I am under be a world child, form a circle before we all go under" (Radiohead, "Street Spirit [fade out]")