From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 19 May 2002 17:32:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 19 May 2002 17:32:07 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:55045 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 19 May 2002 17:32:07 -0400 Message-ID: <3CE8198F.613F34CF@zip.com.au> Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 14:30:55 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Aggarwal CC: Linux Kernel Subject: Re: Kernel bug in RedHat 7.3 -- Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)" In-Reply-To: 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 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/ -