Bug#315931: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7: Assertion failure in journal_dirty_data() at fs/jbd/transaction.c:986

["David N. Welton" <davidw@debian.org>]

Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7
Version: 2.6.8-16
Severity: important

Hi,

I have been experiencing random lockups on a server of mine, located at a
hosting company.  I finally got ahold of an error message that may be
connected with the lockup:

Message from syslogd@hecl at Sat Jun 25 01:55:48 2005 ...
hecl kernel: Assertion failure in journal_dirty_data() at
fs/jbd/transaction.c:986: "jh->b_transaction ==
journal->j_committing_transaction"

and the machine has nothing else in syslog at that point until the reboot.

I don't see anything of significance before that message either.

I'm reporting this as a bug, but - could it be a hardware problem, with the
disk, for instance?  Any suggestions would be most appreciated, as random
hangs on a server that is supposed to be up 24/7 are *most* annoying:-(

Thankyou for your time and assistance,
Dave

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7 depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.81.1   tools to create initrd image for p
ii  module-init-tools             3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

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