Back again with another oops, which looks suspiciously similiar to the one i posted some days ago (https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/ext3-users/2002-May/003587.html). Jun 11 12:11:30 castor kernel: Assertion failure in journal_write_metadata_buffer() at journal.c:406: "buffer_jdirty(jh2bh(jh_in))" ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.4.18-4custom. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.18-4custom/ (default) -m /boot/System.map-2.4.18-4 (specified) Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol dev_getbyhwaddr_R__ver_dev_getbyhwaddr not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol flush_dentry_attributes_R__ver_flush_dentry_attributes not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol flush_inode_pages_R__ver_flush_inode_pages not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol flush_signal_handlers_R__ver_flush_signal_handlers not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol partition_name , ksyms_base says c02189a0, System.map says c0166980. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol pci_generic_resume_compare_R__ver_pci_generic_resume_compare not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol pci_generic_resume_restore_R__ver_pci_generic_resume_restore not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol pci_generic_suspend_save_R__ver_pci_generic_suspend_save not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol scsi_reset_provider_R__ver_scsi_reset_provider not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol sock_map_fd_R__ver_sock_map_fd not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol socket_file_ops_R__ver_socket_file_ops not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol sockfd_lookup_R__ver_sockfd_lookup not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol vmalloc_to_page_R__ver_vmalloc_to_page not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Jun 11 12:11:31 castor kernel: invalid operand: 0000 Jun 11 12:11:31 castor kernel: CPU: 3 Jun 11 12:11:31 castor kernel: EIP: 0010:[ext2_read_super+810/1956] Not tainted Jun 11 12:11:31 castor kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282 Jun 11 12:11:31 castor kernel: eax: 0000001d ebx: 00000000 ecx: c034de48 edx: 00005c81 Jun 11 12:11:31 castor kernel: esi: d3a5bab0 edi: f795b800 ebp: 00000018 esp: f7463e40 Jun 11 12:11:31 castor kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jun 11 12:11:31 castor kernel: Process kjournald (pid: 148, stackpage=f7463000) Jun 11 12:11:31 castor kernel: Stack: c02877f1 00000196 d3a5bab0 00000000 f795b800 00000018 f795b800 d3a5bab0 Jun 11 12:11:31 castor kernel: f795b800 00000018 c0178547 00000000 00000000 c01756d7 f704c300 d3a5bab0 Jun 11 12:11:31 castor kernel: f7463ec0 0004f8a6 f795b800 f795b850 f74a1000 00000000 d1cb8510 00000000 Jun 11 12:11:31 castor kernel: Call Trace: [ext2_sync_super+63/76] journal_next_log_block [kernel] 0x7b Jun 11 12:11:31 castor kernel: Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 08 90 8b 7c 24 34 8b 4f 0c 85 c9 74 35 c7 44 24 Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 Code; 00000000 Before first symbol 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; 00000000 Before first symbol 0: 0f 0b ud2a Code; 00000002 Before first symbol 2: 83 c4 08 add $0x8,%esp Code; 00000005 Before first symbol 5: 90 nop Code; 00000006 Before first symbol 6: 8b 7c 24 34 mov 0x34(%esp,1),%edi Code; 0000000a Before first symbol a: 8b 4f 0c mov 0xc(%edi),%ecx Code; 0000000d Before first symbol d: 85 c9 test %ecx,%ecx Code; 0000000f Before first symbol f: 74 35 je 46 <_EIP+0x46> 00000046 Before first symbol Code; 00000011 Before first symbol 11: c7 44 24 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,0x0(%esp,1) Code; 00000018 Before first symbol 18: 00 Dont know why, but this is all i get from ksymoops, even after i booted back to the kernel in question. Now i'm running 2.4.19pre10aa2 with added ext3 0.9.18 and will report if something strange will happen. I might also write some observations to lkml ... redhat's kernel with rmap prooved to be way inferior to -aa kernel on this busy mail server ... Btw, this is a redhat 6.2 system with most of the updates, gcc reports version version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release). -- Jure Pecar