Martial Herbaut wrote: > > Actually the previous error I reported was on a 2.4.16 kernel. > > upgrading to 2.4.18 made it stop hanging the system and got us to the real > error message: > > kernel: journal_bmap: journal block not found at offset 6924 on sd(8,2) > kernel: Aborting journal on device sd(8,2). > kernel: ext3_abort called. > kernel: EXT3-fs abort (device sd(8,2)): > ext3_journal_start: Detected aborted journal > kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only > > any idea how we can recover from here? is there a way to rebuild an ext3 > journal? Have you tried forcing a fsck of that filesystem?