Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 04:54:34PM +0100, frode wrote: >>I got the following error while rm'ing a 700mb file from an ext3 partition: >>Assertion failure in journal_unmap_buffer() at transaction.c:1857: >>"transaction == journal->j_running_transaction" > Hmm --- this is not one I think I've ever seen before. [oops trace snipped] >>NVRM: loading NVIDIA NVdriver Kernel Module 1.0.2313 Tue Nov 27 12:01:24 PST 2001 > with this driver loaded we really can't make any guarantees about your > system stability at all. If you manage to eliminate other oopses and > still get the ext3 one, even without the NVidia driver loaded, then > there would be a much better change of debugging things, but right now > it sounds like a hardware problem. OK, I rebooted and gzip'ed the NVdriver in /lib/modules... to make sure the module doesn't load (lsmod now says my kernel isn't tainted). I'll try using the plain 'nv' driver shipped with XFree instead for a while. I tried making another 700mb iso image and fool around with it (loopback mount it, umount it, then rm it) but couldn't trigger anything - but I just spent five minutes trying. As I mentioned I have had quite a few oopses lately, most of them regarding paging etc. (but I'm no kernel expert). See for example http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101096234600708&w=2 and http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101128528029736&w=2 I'm running linux on an old p100 as well but don't see any problems, so as you say I suspected a hardware problem. I ran MemTest86 for about half an hour without any errors (but of course there's plenty of other things that may be wrong). Do you have any suggestions on other ways I could try to put my hardware stability on trial, or try to reproduce the bug (to see if it occurs on a non-tainted kernel)? - Frode
