Hi, If this is a redundant post I apologize. I am running 2.4.20 on what has been a very stable Athlon machine for months, tried to move a 2 GB file from an ext2 partition to an ext3 and kjournald crashed. Here are the last reminants of my shell scrollback: [*ROOT* mofo /mnt/sda1/mysql/fd 641 ] ll oldmail/ total 2363288 -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 2147483647 Jan 23 18:04 maillog.MYD -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 270138368 Jan 23 18:06 maillog.MYI -rw-rw---- 1 mysql mysql 8910 Mar 22 2002 maillog.frm [*ROOT* mofo /mnt/sda1/mysql/fd 642 ] df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 8064272 4529888 3124732 60% / /dev/hda3 29387900 1488316 26406744 6% /home none 127884 0 127884 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 33032196 30162240 1191972 97% /mnt/sda1 /dev/sda3 151195204 138014604 5500328 97% /mnt/sda3 /dev/sda4 193010776 75750204 107456104 42% /mnt/sda4 [*ROOT* mofo /mnt/sda1/mysql/fd 643 ] mv oldmail/* /mnt/sda4/mgh/oldmysqllogs/ Segmentation fault [*ROOT* mofo /mnt/sda1/mysql/fd 644 ] Message from syslogd@mofo at Thu Apr 17 21:40:13 2003 ... mofo kernel: Assertion failure in journal_stop() at transaction.c:1384: "journal_current_handle() == handle" [*ROOT* mofo /mnt/sda1/mysql/fd 644 ] [*ROOT* mofo /mnt/sda1/mysql/fd 644 ] fg Anything accessing /mnt/sda4 hung at this point (smbd among others) and I could not cleanly shutdown the machine. Finally a umount -km /mnt/sda3 (not sda4) killed lots of procs, among them sshd and it is game over until a guy gets onsite to hit the reset button. I cant access the machine at the moment but this looks like a hot list so I am posing what I can. It is an Athlon XP 2000+ with 256 MB DDR (no certain on speed, definitely an athlon XP) running strait 2.4.20 from the bz2 at ftp.kernel.org w/o module support compiled for Athlon, ext3 compiled in statically, and again this has been acting as a mysql server for months without a hitch. it is a redhat 7.2 dist with all the updates as of abotut one month ago installed, less the custom kernel. The file I was moving as you can see is a 2 GB file, ie. right at the limit of ext2 capacity, and I am wondering if this is the culprit. Here is what was logged before I lost the machine: Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: kernel BUG at transaction.c:1384! Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: invalid operand: 0000 Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: CPU: 0 Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: EIP: 0010:[journal_stop+108/560] Not tainted Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0158eec>] Not tainted Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282 Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: eax: 00000063 ebx: 00000001 ecx: 00000009 edx: c831bf44 Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: esi: cdcc7a40 edi: c3739e80 ebp: ccd18ec0 esp: c69e9a00 Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: Process mv (pid: 8133, stackpage=c69e9000) Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: Stack: c03250a0 c0320f67 c0320d18 00000568 c0327540 00000000 00000000 c3739e80 Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: cda5e900 c3739e80 c0152617 c3739e80 00000000 c0158935 cbc83930 00000000 Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: c313bc90 cdcc7a40 ca39fec0 ccd18ec0 cda5e900 cc283600 00000007 c013e3ce Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: Call Trace: [ext3_dirty_inode+199/256] [journal_get_undo_access+245/288] [__mark_inode_dirty+46/144] [ext3_new_block+112/1936] [journal_cancel_revoke+251/368] Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: Call Trace: [<c0152617>] [<c0158935>] [<c013e3ce>] [<c014d370>] [<c015ca9b>] Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: [do_get_write_access+1183/1216] [journal_dirty_metadata+398/432] [ext3_do_update_inode+759/896] [ext3_do_update_inode+852/896] [ip_nat_fn+467/480] [ipt_hook+28/32] Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: [<c015861f>] [<c0158c8e>] [<c0152117>] [<c0152174>] [<c02cfe53>] [<c02cfb2c>] Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: [journal_cancel_revoke+251/368] [do_get_write_access+1183/1216] [tcp_packet+309/336] [journal_get_write_access+55/80] [journal_cancel_revoke+251/368] [do_get_write_access+1183/1216] Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: [<c015ca9b>] [<c015861f>] [<c02cbf85>] [<c0158677>] [<c015ca9b>] [<c015861f>] Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: [ext3_alloc_block+25/32] [ext3_alloc_branch+85/720] [getblk+40/96] [getblk+57/96] [bread+22/112] [ext3_do_update_inode+759/896] Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: [<c014f649>] [<c014f965>] [<c012e778>] [<c012e789>] [<c012e9c6>] [<c0152117>] Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: [ext3_do_update_inode+852/896] [do_get_write_access+1183/1216] [ext3_get_branch+83/208] [ext3_get_block_handle+437/688] [do_get_write_access+1183/1216] [create_buffers+97/240] Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: [<c0152174>] [<c015861f>] [<c014f7d3>] [<c0150035>] [<c015861f>] [<c012ebd1>] Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: [ext3_get_block+89/96] [__block_prepare_write+230/768] [__jbd_kmalloc+39/160] [block_prepare_write+29/64] [ext3_get_block+0/96] [ext3_prepare_write+124/288] Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: [<c0150189>] [<c012f126>] [<c015e757>] [<c012f9ad>] [<c0150130>] [<c01505dc>] Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: [ext3_get_block+0/96] [generic_file_write+1185/1760] [ext3_file_write+31/176] [sys_write+149/240] [schedule+786/832] [system_call+51/56] Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: [<c0150130>] [<c0122b91>] [<c014e13f>] [<c012ce25>] [<c0110222>] [<c0106d83>] Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: Apr 17 21:40:13 mofo kernel: Code: 0f 0b 68 05 18 0d 32 c0 83 c4 14 f6 47 18 04 ba 01 00 00 00 Looking at http://batleth.sapienti-sat.org/projects/FAQs/ext3-faq.html where i found the link to this list, it says to use ext3-0.0.7a.tar.bz2 which looks like a kernel patch, which I have not done. The kernel was compiled from the 2.4.20 dist with no ext3 patches. I did install e2fsprogs-1.32 but no kernel patches. If this is the issue, please just tell me I am an idiot and I will be gone. I am 99% sure this is not a hardware issue. my first priority is getting the machine on its feet along with that partition, whose integrity i now question. Can I substitute ext2 for ext3 in fstab and mount it as ext2, after ext2 fscking it? If you have a monent to spare any insight on this late good Thursday you are doing me a great favor, and maybe I have found a legitimate bug here. I should have hte machine online in 30 minutes if there is more info I can provide. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users