On Mon, 13 May 2002 15:06:48 +1000 (EST) Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote: > I just got bitten by this Assertion. The one that starts as in the > subject, and ends with: > "!(((jh2bh(jh))->b_state & (1UL << BH_Lock)) != 0)" After getting one of these, when using rsync to a PD drive, the device could not be unmounted. After re-booting I did e2fsck /dev/sdb5 and got: e2fsck 1.24a (02-Sep-2001) backup: recovering journal backup: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while reading block 1331 JFS: Failed to read block at offset 813 JFS: IO error -5 recovering block 813 in log e2fsck: Input/output error while recovering ext3 journal of backup What should my next step be? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber Political Science Resources http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ UK-Euro FAQ http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/docs/efaq.htm