At 21:26 08/15/2005 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Twice my laptop has turned to toast on me recently. > >When I look at terminal window with Ctrl-Alt-F1 I see >continual stream of messages about ext3 journal >either being aborted or dropped. > >When I reboot problem goes away. I hope this >doesn't keep happening. > >Any ideas what is causing this? > >Chris
Has this resolved itself or is it a continuing problem? The journal in a journaling file system can either be on the same file system (most setups and the default) or on another device. You probably have the journal on the same file system. One posible cause of problems can be hardware, where the hard drive has problems reading/writing to the area where the journal is located. You can use the smartctl utilities to check out the hard drive to see if it has been reporting any errors (if it is S.M.A.R.T. capable), or if you have the ability to fully backup and restore the erroring partition, you could back it up and then run badblocks on it with the destructive write option. Or recreate the filesystem with the badblocks check enabled. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
