On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 06:20:50PM -0300, Eduardo Grosclaude alleged: > Out of the blue, dmesg on my HP Proliant w/ a SCSI disk gives loads of > messages like this one: > > EXT3-fs error (device dm-0) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted > > Then the root fs goes read-only, so little else can be done on the machine. > LVM locks up. At restart, fs needs a reboot to recover after fsck. The host > starts up ok, then I am given some more minutes before the problem > reappears. This is stock CentOS 4.4, never have gotten to update it because > of this very same problem. > > System logs say SCSI I/O error, but SMART says no problem has been found, > neither does badblocks (run from a rescue CD bootup). SCSI cabling, > terminator, etc has been checked. > > What should I investigate next? Is the disk condemned? Quite likely the drive is dieing. If you want proof from SMART, something like 'smartctl -t long /dev/sda' will likely fail. -- Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin University of Southern California Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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