The system runs FC14 with an (almost) stock 2.6.39 kernel, configured to panic if it seems to hang. That's exactly what started to happen without anything being logged in the normal way except over netconsole. /proc/mdstat: Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md3 : active raid1 sda3[0] sdb3[1] 1885338488 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] md1 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] 33555384 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU] kernel messages: (/etc/cron.weekly/99-raid-check kicks in) Jun 2 04:04:00 janus md: data-check of RAID array md3 Jun 2 04:04:00 janus md: delaying data-check of md1 until md3 has finished (they share one or more physical units) Jun 2 04:04:00 janus md: minimum _guaranteed_ speed: 1000 KB/sec/disk. Jun 2 04:04:00 janus md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than 200000 KB/sec) for data-check. Jun 2 04:04:00 janus md: using 128k window, over a total of 1885338488 blocks. Jun 2 04:55:54 janus INFO: task jbd2/md1-8:1188 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Jun 2 04:55:54 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Jun 2 04:55:54 janus jbd2/md1-8 D Jun 2 04:55:54 f5739e68 Jun 2 04:55:54 janus 0 1188 2 0x00000000 Jun 2 04:55:54 f5739e78 Jun 2 04:55:54 00000046 Jun 2 04:55:54 00000002 Jun 2 04:55:54 f5739e68 Jun 2 04:55:54 00000000 Jun 2 04:55:54 01000000 Jun 2 04:55:54 f5739e08 Jun 2 04:55:54 f6124f00 Jun 2 04:55:54 janus Jun 2 04:55:54 c1999c00 Jun 2 04:55:54 00000001 Jun 2 04:55:54 c1999680 Jun 2 04:55:54 c1999680 Jun 2 04:55:54 00000003 Jun 2 04:55:54 f6126940 Jun 2 04:55:54 f6126ac0 Jun 2 04:55:54 f6786680 Jun 2 04:55:54 janus Jun 2 04:55:54 000045d1 Jun 2 04:55:54 00000000 Jun 2 04:55:54 00000000 Jun 2 04:55:54 57087b88 Jun 2 04:55:54 000045d1 Jun 2 04:55:54 000045d1 Jun 2 04:55:54 f6686c00 Jun 2 04:55:54 f6686c10 Jun 2 04:55:54 janus Jun 2 04:55:54 Call Trace: Jun 2 04:55:54 [<c103822b>] ? get_parent_ip+0xb/0x40 Jun 2 04:55:54 [<c11698a2>] jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0x182/0x1500 Jun 2 04:55:54 [<c100249f>] ? __switch_to+0xcf/0x1c0 Jun 2 04:55:54 [<c103822b>] ? get_parent_ip+0xb/0x40 Jun 2 04:55:54 [<c162f05c>] ? schedule+0x2ac/0x730 Jun 2 04:55:54 [<c1056c90>] ? wake_up_bit+0x80/0x80 (reboots) -- Frank -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html