From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461) Description of problem: Here's the oops: Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction () at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)" Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: kernel BUG at commit.c:535! Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: invalid operand: 0000 Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: autofs e1000 usb-ohci usbcore ext3 jbd aacraid sd_mod scsi_mod Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: CPU: 1 Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: EIP: 0010:[<f883d0e4>] Tainted: P Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: EIP is at journal_commit_transaction [jbd] 0xb04 (2.4.18-3smp) Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: eax: 0000001c ebx: 0000000a ecx: c02eee60 edx: 00002f93 Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: esi: c2db6ac0 edi: f769b9e0 ebp: f7506000 esp: f7507e78 Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: Process kjournald (pid: 17, stackpage=f7507000) Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: Stack: f8843eee 00000217 f6abb010 00000000 00000f9c ed608064 00000000 f68fcf40 Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: c2db6b20 00000b6a f727c3a0 00000006 c01f0eac f71581a0 ed7242c0 eb54e780 Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: eb54e720 eb54e6c0 eb54e660 eb54e600 eb54e5a0 eb54e540 eb54e4e0 eb54e480 Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: Call Trace: [<f8843eee>] .rodata.str1.1 [jbd] 0x26e Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: [<c01f0eac>] ip_local_deliver [kernel] 0x12c Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: [<c0120f3b>] do_softirq [kernel] 0x7b Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: [<c010a77f>] do_IRQ [kernel] 0xdf Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: [<c010758d>] __switch_to [kernel] 0x3d Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: [<c0119048>] schedule [kernel] 0x348 Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: [<f883f7d6>] kjournald [jbd] 0x136 Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: [<f883f680>] commit_timeout [jbd] 0x0 Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: [<c0107286>] kernel_thread [kernel] 0x26 Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: [<f883f6a0>] kjournald [jbd] 0x0 Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: Dec 11 11:36:25 oraweb2 kernel: Code: 0f 0b 5a 59 6a 04 8b 44 24 18 50 56 e8 4b f1 ff ff 8d 47 48 The server is a Dell Poweredge 1650 with hardware RAID control (RAID 5, aacriad adaptec card) . uname -a : Linux oraweb2 2.4.18-3smp #1 SMP Thu Apr 18 07:27:31 EDT 2002 i686 unknown issue: Redhat 7.3 Valhalla Please let me know ASAP if there are any recommended patches/updates which will cure this problem (which we have experienced several times on similarly configured boxes). Cheers. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Additional info:
there have been several kernel errata for 7.3; the very first one of those was to fix exactly this issue; 2.4.18-18.7.x is the current recommended 7.3 kernel.
cheers.. will do.