From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020804 Description of problem: I attempted to copy data from failing IDE hard disk to a new one. This triggered a kernel bug. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.18-7.92 (IIRC, I have up2dated kernel just after the failure to 7.93). EXT3-fs error (device ide1(22,2)): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing block in system zone - block = 16 Assertion failure in journal_forget_R11cff26b() at transaction.c:1224: "!jh->b_committed_data" ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at transaction.c:1224! invalid operand: 0000 cmpci soundcore autofs ne2k-pci 8390 8139too mii ipt_REJECT iptable_filter ip_ CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<d082c7d6>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00013282 EIP is at journal_forget_R11cff26b [jbd] 0x1a6 (2.4.18-7.80) eax: 00000062 ebx: cdaf9894 ecx: 00000001 edx: 00000001 esi: c92767d4 edi: cf966c30 ebp: cf88dd18 esp: cf88dcf0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process rm (pid: 7533, stackpage=cf88d000) Stack: d0833480 d0832e96 d0832d30 000004c8 d0832eaf cf966bbc c1a87dec c6efe4c4 c9931104 cbddbb54 cf88dd4c d083c6c3 cbddbb54 cdaf9894 00000018 00000018 ffffff0e c0142069 00000010 00000297 c6efe4c4 00000004 cf88c000 cf88dd94 Call Trace: [<d0833480>] .rodata.str1.32 [jbd] 0x0 [<d0832e96>] .rodata.str1.1 [jbd] 0x176 [<d0832d30>] .rodata.str1.1 [jbd] 0x10 [<d0832eaf>] .rodata.str1.1 [jbd] 0x18f [<d083c6c3>] ext3_forget [ext3] 0x63 [<c0142069>] get_hash_table [kernel] 0x59 [<d083eaa9>] ext3_clear_blocks [ext3] 0x119 [<d082bef3>] journal_get_write_access_R2d7c0bce [jbd] 0x53 [<d083ec14>] ext3_free_data [ext3] 0xb4 [<c011792e>] schedule [kernel] 0x17e [<d083efb6>] ext3_free_branches [ext3] 0x296 [<c0142ad8>] bread [kernel] 0x98 [<d083ede1>] ext3_free_branches [ext3] 0xc1 [<d083c812>] start_transaction [ext3] 0x92 [<d083f3e6>] ext3_truncate [ext3] 0x406 [<d082b23d>] start_this_handle [jbd] 0x9d [<d082b420>] journal_start_R682d7ddb [jbd] 0xa0 [<d083c812>] start_transaction [ext3] 0x92 [<d083c988>] ext3_delete_inode [ext3] 0xf8 [<d0842681>] ext3_unlink [ext3] 0x111 [<d083c890>] ext3_delete_inode [ext3] 0x0 [<c01561ea>] iput [kernel] 0x10a [<c014cd3d>] vfs_unlink [kernel] 0xed [<c014cf72>] sys_unlink [kernel] 0x102 [<c01092df>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 Code: 0f 0b c8 04 30 2d 83 d0 e9 61 ff ff ff c7 04 24 80 34 83 d0
When you say a "failing IDE drive", what was the manner of the failure? Were there any other log messages relating to ext3 or IDE failures?
The disk had hardware reading problems and they were reported as IDE reading errors. These were the only mesages printed (i.e IDE+ext3).
I should comment that this bug was traced to errors in vt8233a motherboard support. This is fixed in current kernels. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71545 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.