Re: Kernel bug in RedHat 7.3 -- Assertion failure in

[Andrew Morton]

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> 
> Hello:
> 
> My RedHat 7.3 machine just locked up and I could not reboot it.  I had
> to punch the reset button.
> 
> Here is what I found in the /var/log/messages file:
> May 19 12:50:16 server1 kernel: Assertion failure in
> journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)"

SMP machine, presumably?

The RH7.3 kernel has a bugfix which has unhappily exposed another
bug: a race with bdflush.

I'm pretty sure that Red Hat's latest errata kernel fixes this.

Patches against 2.4.19-pre8 which fix this are at
	http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/v2.4/

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