Description of problem: Intermittent Oops ( EIP is at journal_grab_journal_head ) and filesystem corruption. It often most occurs when writing large files > 1G to ext3 FS on IDE. It can require booting into level 2 to fix with e2fsck. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 but may have occured before with kernel-2.6.17-1.2141_FC4 kernel-2.6.17-1.2139_FC4 How reproducible: It an intermittent problem, can occur with normal samba fileserver usage, but most often ( three times ) when writing large files to ext3 via netcat or scp . Steps to Reproduce: 1. scp dvd.iso root@ppserv1:/tmp/dvd.iso 2. 3. Actual results: Message from syslogd@ppserv1 at Sat Oct 7 22:16:20 2006 ... ppserv1 kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1] Message from syslogd@ppserv1 at Sat Oct 7 22:16:21 2006 ... ppserv1 kernel: CPU: 0 Message from syslogd@ppserv1 at Sat Oct 7 22:16:21 2006 ... ppserv1 kernel: EIP is at journal_grab_journal_head+0xf/0x40 [jbd] ... ( syslog attached ) Expected results: No opps / no corruption. Additional info: This is a desktop now running as a remote headless server. Hardware as been fully checked. No memory errors, no badblocks on the HDs, UPS running fine, CPU has passed burnin tests. This is the first time I have managed to catch syslog output during an event.
Created attachment 137985 [details] syslog capture
Please try and reproduce with FC5. FC4 will no longer be recieving non-security updates.
A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5 have reported that installing a kernel update has left their systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2 installed. See bug 207474 for further details. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem. Thank you.
(this is a mass-close to kernel bugs in NEEDINFO state) As indicated previously there has been no update on the progress of this bug therefore I am closing it as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Please re-open if the issue still occurs for you and I will try to assist in its resolution. Thank you for taking the time to report the initial bug. If you believe that this bug was closed in error, please feel free to reopen this bug.