From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Neil Aggarwal <neil@JAMMConsulting.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Kernel bug in RedHat 7.3 -- Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)"
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 14:30:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CE8198F.613F34CF@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ENEBKGGOKDOEALIKAJMBOEIPCGAA.neil@JAMMConsulting.com>
Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> My RedHat 7.3 machine just locked up and I could not reboot it. I had
> to punch the reset button.
>
> Here is what I found in the /var/log/messages file:
> May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: Assertion failure in
> journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)"
SMP machine, presumably?
The RH7.3 kernel has a bugfix which has unhappily exposed another
bug: a race with bdflush.
I'm pretty sure that Red Hat's latest errata kernel fixes this.
Patches against 2.4.19-pre8 which fix this are at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/v2.4/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-19 21:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-19 21:18 Kernel bug in RedHat 7.3 -- Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)" Neil Aggarwal
2002-05-19 21:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-05-20 9:21 ` Aschwin Marsman - aYniK Software Solutions
2002-05-20 15:00 ` Benjamin LaHaise
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