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/- 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/
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