ext3 journel aborted in 2.6.0-mm1

ext3 journel aborted in 2.6.0-mm1

[Ed Sweetman]

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.

Re: ext3 journel aborted in 2.6.0-mm1

[Andrew Morton]

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.