Hi, On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:44:28PM -0700, Halbert Thiodore wrote: > I've seen several posting regarding assertion failure (I also have that > problem since rh 7.2 and 7.3!!). Is it a bug or something? Yes, it is either a bug, or something [else]. It is hardware failure in some cases, a core VFS bug in others, an ext3 bug in others. > This failure can > happen although we have run fsck. The failure msg can sometimes just pop-up > from the screen when the computer is idling. Well, tell us what the error says and I might be able to help you! > Sometimes low-level format needs to be done if we want to do reinstallation > because otherwise during formatting the filesystem in graphic mode, rh will > prompt error msg regarding some serious problem has occur at /dev/hda#. If > the installation was done in text mode, you could see that in fact the > serious problem was the assertion failure. After that, the computer become > hang and the caps-lock and scroll-lock button's light on the keyboard are > blinking. Please tell us the exact kernel version, hardware config, and the text of the error. Without precise information, we can't diagnose problems, we can only guess. Cheers, Stephen
