The panic message is "Assertion failure in journal_start() at fs/jbd/transaction.c:274: "handle->h_transaction->t_journal == journal"" The problem is in page_symlink() discussed here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/1/328 and the patch which fixes this problem is http://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=260401. FYI, the backtrace of the process which caused a system panic is the following: PID: 12953 TASK: f3d0af30 CPU: 1 COMMAND: "backup" #0 [e3a1ec48] disk_dump at f89521a2 #1 [e3a1ec4c] printk at c01228a7 #2 [e3a1ec58] freeze_other_cpus at f8951ef5 #3 [e3a1ec68] start_disk_dump at f8951fa0 #4 [e3a1ec78] try_crashdump at c01348ca #5 [e3a1ec80] die at c0106045 #6 [e3a1ecb4] do_invalid_op at c0106420 #7 [e3a1ed64] error_code (via invalid_op) at c02d53f9 EAX: 00000073 EBX: c44b0614 ECX: e3a1eda8 EDX: f88d21ca EBP: 00000000 DS: 007b ESI: c3a6e800 ES: 007b EDI: e3a1e000 CS: 0060 EIP: f88cb449 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010216 #8 [e3a1eda0] journal_start at f88cb449 EAX: 00000073 EBX: c44b0614 ECX: e3a1eda8 EDX: f88d21ca EBP: 00000000 DS: 007b ESI: c3a6e800 ES: 007b EDI: e3a1e000 CS: 0060 EIP: f88cb449 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010216 CS: 0060 EIP: f88cb449 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010216 #8 [e3a1eda0] journal_start at f88cb449 #9 [e3a1edc4] start_transaction at f8921ed2 #10 [e3a1edd0] ext3_delete_inode at f8921f48 #11 [e3a1eddc] generic_delete_inode at c017192a #12 [e3a1ede8] iput at c0171b06 #13 [e3a1edf0] dput at c016f17e #14 [e3a1ee00] prune_dcache at c016f6ae #15 [e3a1ee1c] shrink_dcache_memory at c016fa43 #16 [e3a1ee20] shrink_slab at c0149811 #17 [e3a1ee50] try_to_free_pages at c014a7f3 #18 [e3a1eea4] __alloc_pages at c0144198 #19 [e3a1eed0] find_or_create_page at c0140931 #20 [e3a1eee8] page_symlink at c0169d86 #21 [e3a1ef10] ext3_symlink at f89281b1 #22 [e3a1ef3c] vfs_symlink at c0168f0f #23 [e3a1ef54] sys_symlink at c0168fc6 #24 [e3a1efc0] system_call at c02d48fc EAX: 00000053 EBX: 08672980 ECX: 08672a08 EDX: bfff0888 DS: 007b ESI: bfff0884 ES: 007b EDI: 08068130 SS: 007b ESP: bfff0858 EBP: bfff0878 CS: 0073 EIP: 009567a2 ERR: 00000053 EFLAGS: 00000246 Version-Release number of selected component: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version Number: 4 Release Number: 4 Architecture: x86 Kernel Version: 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL Drivers or hardware or architecture dependency: None. How reproducible: Unknown. Step to Reproduce: Unknown. Actual Results: Panic. Expected Results: Not panic. Summary of actions taken to resolve issue: None. Location of diagnostic data: None. Hardware configuration: Model: PRIMERGY RX300S3 CPU Info: Xeon(R) CPU 5110 @ 1.60GHz x 4 Memory Info: 5 GB Target Release: 4.8 Errata Request: async errata for 4.7 Hotfix Request: no
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Committed in 84.EL . RPMS are available at http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1024.html