Hi, On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:53:27PM +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. > 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. Have you been able to reproduce any problems yet? > 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 iput() crash; page list crash; jbd transaction crash. These look perfectly consistent with random memory corruption. > > 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 Try leaving it running overnight --- half an hour is very little time for a proper memory test. Cheers, Stephen
