Re: Kernel Panic

["Jamie Harris" <jamie@jharris.homeip.net>]

Sounds to me like you have bad sectors on your harddisk that the
journalling file system is trying to work around.  What file system are
you using and what hardware?

cheers

Jamie...

> Dear Linux Admin,
>
> On Linux 2.4 I have had three Kernel Panics recently.
>
> They include the following: journal.o "( ret != 0 )".  I see in the
> source code that there is an assertion: J_ASSERT(ret != 0) in the
> function:
>
> unsigned long journal_bmap(journal_t *journal, unsigned long blocknr)
>
> Which looks like a possible place for the origin of this.
>
> There is also a large amount of Hex data, which I do not have, unless
> logged somewhere on my system unknown to me.  (I don't get many Panics,
> not sure where panic data is logged...)
>
> On reboot I loose files.  Although nothing serious yet.
>
> The system is a POP3 server, handling about 1,000 email files and about
> 10,000 email's a day, so there is constantly great disk load by sendmail
>  and the default redhat POP3.
>
> Should I upgrade my kernel, or may I be doing something specific to
> cause this?
>
> Thanks with any help,
>
> Ben Clewett.
>
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