Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269173AbUINDtr (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:49:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269176AbUINDkv (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:40:51 -0400 Received: from out010pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.133]:2296 "EHLO out010.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269162AbUINDhs (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:37:48 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Organization: Organization: None, detectable by casual observers To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: journal aborted, system read-only Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 23:37:46 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" References: <200409121128.39947.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <1095088378.2765.18.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1095088378.2765.18.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409132337.46922.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out010.verizon.net from [151.205.51.156] at Mon, 13 Sep 2004 22:37:47 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1668 Lines: 44 On Monday 13 September 2004 11:12, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: >Hi, > >On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 16:28, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I just got up, and found advisories on every shell open that the >> journal had encountered an error and aborted, converting my / >> partition to read-only. > >... > >> The kernel is 2.6.9-rc1-mm4. .config available on request. >> >> This is precious little info to go on, but basicly I'm wondering >> if anyone else has encountered this? > >Well, we really need to see _what_ error the journal had encountered > to be able to even begin to diagnose it. But 2.6.9-rc1-mm3 and > -mm4 had a bug in the journaling introduced by low-latency work on > the checkpoint code; can you try -mm5 or back out >"journal_clean_checkpoint_list-latency-fix.patch" and try again? Since -mm5 killed my usb2.0 stuffs, (all my printers disappeared) I'm now building -mm4 after reverting this patch. This must be a fairly rare occurance in the real world, it has not recurred. (yet, gotta keep Murphy happy you know) :-) >Cheers, > Stephen -- Cheers & thanks Stephen, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/