Re: journal aborted, system read-only

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 13 September 2004 11:12, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 16:28, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I just got up, and found advisories on every shell open that the
>> journal had encountered an error and aborted, converting my /
>> partition to read-only.
>
>...
>
>> The kernel is 2.6.9-rc1-mm4.  .config available on request.
>>
>> This is precious little info to go on, but basicly I'm wondering
>> if anyone else has encountered this?
>
>Well, we really need to see _what_ error the journal had encountered
> to be able to even begin to diagnose it.  But 2.6.9-rc1-mm3 and
> -mm4 had a bug in the journaling introduced by low-latency work on
> the checkpoint code; can you try -mm5 or back out
>"journal_clean_checkpoint_list-latency-fix.patch" and try again?

Since -mm5 killed my usb2.0 stuffs, (all my printers disappeared) I'm 
now building -mm4 after reverting this patch.

This must be a fairly rare occurance in the real world, it has not 
recurred.  (yet, gotta keep Murphy happy you know)  :-)

>Cheers,
> Stephen

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