Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 65179
Kernel crash from Assertion failure in __journal_file_buffer()
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:42:40 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020509 Description of problem: While running ssh in gnome the machine hung up and I got this message on the console: May 19 14:33:27 kernel: Assertion failure in __journal_file_buffer() at transaction.c:1960: "jh->b_transaction == transaction || jh->b_transaction == 0" The X then completely froze up and it would not respawn with ctrl-alt-backspace. I also couldn't get a login on a virtual console. I pressed control-alt-delete to try to reboot and got a message again and again that apm couldn't enter state: busy. Eventually I switched the power off. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):2.4.9-31 How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Additional info:
Did you manage to capture any more of the oops message? This particular error has been seen in the past, but pretty much every single case has been tracked down to faulty hardware. I'd suggest memtest86 as a first diagnostic. Without the rest of the oops, it's not really possible for me to eliminate software as a fault. There have been a few small bug fixes since 2.4.9-31, but none that I can think of that match this particular footprint. I'd really need more information to go any further with this one.