Ext3 users - May 2002 - To ext3 developers

Hi...

I've seen several posting regarding assertion failure (I also have that 
problem since rh 7.2 and 7.3!!). Is it a bug or something? This failure can 
happen although we have run fsck. The failure msg can sometimes just pop-up 
from the screen when the computer is idling.

Sometimes low-level format needs to be done if we want to do reinstallation 
because otherwise during formatting the filesystem in graphic mode, rh will 
prompt error msg regarding some serious problem has occur at /dev/hda#. If 
the installation was done in text mode, you could see that in fact the 
serious problem was the assertion failure. After that, the computer become 
hang and the caps-lock and scroll-lock button's light on the keyboard are 
blinking.

If I'm not wrong, this failure happens especially from users using IDE hdd. 
And from some previous postings, seems like you guys are not into this type 
of hdd.


Halbert Thiodore
thio79@asu.edu

Hi,

On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 08:44:28PM -0700, Halbert Thiodore wrote:
 
> I've seen several posting regarding assertion failure (I also have that
> problem since rh 7.2 and 7.3!!). Is it a bug or something?
Yes, it is either a bug, or something [else].  It is hardware failure
in some cases, a core VFS bug in others, an ext3 bug in others.
> This failure can 
> happen although we have run fsck. The failure msg can sometimes just pop-up
> from the screen when the computer is idling.
Well, tell us what the error says and I might be able to help you!
> Sometimes low-level format needs to be done if we want to do reinstallation
> because otherwise during formatting the filesystem in graphic mode, rh will
> prompt error msg regarding some serious problem has occur at /dev/hda#. If 
> the installation was done in text mode, you could see that in fact the 
> serious problem was the assertion failure. After that, the computer become 
> hang and the caps-lock and scroll-lock button's light on the keyboard
are
> blinking.
Please tell us the exact kernel version, hardware config, and the text
of the error.  Without precise information, we can't diagnose
problems, we can only guess.

Cheers,
 Stephen