Gus Thanks. It hasn't happened in a few days. Your bad blocks idea motivated me to reinstall OS. I've been procrastinating moving to Debian for fun and now I have a reason to scrub this hard drive afresh and do it.
Cheers, Chris On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:59:29AM -0700, Gus Wirth wrote: > 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 > -- _______________________________________ Christian Seberino, Ph.D. SPAWAR Systems Center San Diego Code 2872 49258 Mills Street, Room 158 San Diego, CA 92152-5385 U.S.A. Phone: (619) 553-9973 Fax : (619) 553-6521 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
