attempt to access beyond end of device

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 01:12:27 +0100 (BST)


I've had my machine deadlock on me a few mins ago, and this time I got
something in the logs:

Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: 03:05: rw=0, want=1980429068,
limit=3951958
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=-167054581
sector=-334109162 size=1024 count=1
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: 03:05: rw=0, want=1972498939,
limit=3951958
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=-174984710
sector=-349969420 size=1024 count=1
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: 03:05: rw=0, want=1943662900,
limit=3951958
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=-203820749
sector=-407641498 size=1024 count=1
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: 03:05: rw=0, want=1925378207,
limit=3951958
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=-222105442
sector=-444210884 size=1024 count=1
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: 03:05: rw=0, want=1923412241,
limit=3951958
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: dev 03:05 blksize=1024 blocknr=-224071408
sector=-448142816 size=1024 count=1
Sep 17 01:02:38 tahallah kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
[ snipped ]

What does this means?

I've never seen this before, this kernel had 20+ days' uptime until now.

Cheers,
Alex

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