Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2003 21:09:56 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: BUG: EXT3: linux-2.4.21-pre5 |
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On Mar 04, 2003 02:47 +0000, Beneath wrote: > All of a sudden, and not during any heavy disk writing sessions or > anything, things seem to stop loading up. I.e. the system is still very > much alive, just anything that requires disk access will hang. It's > happened both times in X, and i was able to switch back to VT1, where > the following error messages awaited me: > (this is as much as i could write down) > > Several of these two messages: > EXT3-FS error (device ide0(3,2)) in ext3 reserve_inode_write: IO failure > EXT3-FS error (device ide0(3,2)) in ext3_get_inode ... (this then > scrolled off the screen before i could transcribe it)
So, could you check in /var/log/messages (or whatever) to see if you have the original error? It might not have been written to disk if the error is on the /var filesystem. If that is the case, is it possible for you to set up a serial console or network syslog to capture the full errors?
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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