Re: attempt to access beyond end of device (more info)
Jan Kara (jack@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 00:23:35 +0200
> On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Alex Buell wrote:
>
> > 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
> [ snip ]
>
> I forgot to add system information to my posting last night!
>
> Linux tahallah 2.2.12 #38 SMP Fri Aug 27 18:17:37 BST 1999 i686
>
> on a dual Pentium Pro 166MHz box with 256MB of memory, with one Maxtor
> 6.4GB hard disk, one Seagate 2.1GB hard disk, HP 8200i IDE CD-Writer,
>
> Prior to the error, the system had been up for 20+ days. :o(
>
I would unmount an filesystem on /dev/hda5 and run fsck on it as soon as possible (and in the
mean time you can pray ;-)). This messages mean that you've got junk in some blocks on disk...
Were there any errors on disk after lockup?
Honza.
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