Hello, Over the last month or so, I've noticed the following error showing up repeatedly in my system logs under kernel 2.4.18-ac3 and more recently under 2.4.19-rc1: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,3)) in ext3_new_inode: error 28 I've now been able to capture the following Oops before the system went down entirely: Assertion failure in do_get_write_access() at transaction.c:611: "!(((jh2bh(jh))->b_state & (1UL << BH_Lock)) != 0)" kernel BUG at transaction.c:611! invalid operand: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c015b12e>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010282 eax: 00000078 ebx: ddadd294 ecx: 00000004 edx: ddb0ff64 esi: ddadd200 edi: dec5d920 ebp: ddadd200 esp: d28dfe70 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process sendmail (pid: 21193, stackpage=d28df000) Stack: c01f7460 c01f5969 c01f58d7 00000263 c01f94a0 00000000 00000000 cbf3b3c0 ddadd294 ddadd200 dec5d920 d4a82730 c015b506 dec5d920 d4a82730 00000000 ddd9acc0 ddadd000 dec5d920 c4cbdc20 c015744d dec5d920 ddd9acc0 00000000 Call Trace: [<c015b506>] [<c015744d>] [<c0155b04>] [<c0155b15>] [<c0155c07>] [<c0157a95>] [<c013b5c6>] [<c013b6a9>] [<c0111bc0>] [<c01087eb>] Code: 0f 0b 63 02 d7 58 1f c0 83 c4 14 8b 4c 24 20 bb e2 ff ff ff Any help or patches would be greatly appreciated. I'd be glad to provide more information if needed. Alec