Red Hat Topics - EXT3-fs error (device sdb2) in start

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EXT3-fs error (device sdb2) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted

parvinderb@gmail.com

2006-05-23, 7:12 pm

Hi,

On my Redhat ES4 box we get the following message on the dmesg after
the box has been running for days.:

EXT3-fs error (device sdb2) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted

At this point we can issue reboot command or shutdown. Only way is the
HARD REBOOT it.

Anyone with any knowledge they can part on this issue???

I would really appreciate any help.

Thanks
Parvinder Bhasin

Scott Lurndal

2006-05-29, 5:02 pm

parvinderb@gmail.com writes:
>Hi,
>
>On my Redhat ES4 box we get the following message on the dmesg after
>the box has been running for days.:
>
>EXT3-fs error (device sdb2) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
>
>At this point we can issue reboot command or shutdown. Only way is the
>HARD REBOOT it.
>
>Anyone with any knowledge they can part on this issue???
>
>I would really appreciate any help.
>
>Thanks
>Parvinder Bhasin
>

1) You got an I/O error writing to the journal. This should be
obvious by the messages in /var/log/messages.

2) Someone stepped on the first few sectors of your filesystem
(which contains the journal and superblock).

scott