Assertion failure

[Richard Kimber <rkimber ntlworld com>]

When using copydir to copy to my optical drive, it hung and the process went 
into D mode.  This doesn't always happen.  Usually it works OK.

I suppose the likelihood is that it is a harware problem, but I should be 
grateful for confirmation of this.

/var/log/messages gives:

kernel: Assertion failure in do_get_write_access() at
  transaction.c:725: "(((jh2bh(jh))->b_state & (1UL << BH_Uptodate)) != 0)"
kernel: invalid operand: 0000
kernel: CPU:    0
kernel: EIP:    0010:[do_get_write_access+1196/1296]
kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c0159adc>]
kernel: EFLAGS: 00010292
kernel: eax: 0000007b   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000005   edx: cefb7f64
kernel: esi: 00000001   edi: c728c000   ebp: c8aef190   esp: cab5bdc8
kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018      kernel: Process copydir (pid: 
10208, stackpage=cab5b000)
kernel: Stack: c0225420 c022582e c0225400 000002d5 c02259e0 00000001 00000000 
c44d8400
kernel:        ce980720 c44d8494 c44d8400 c91e79c0 c8aef190 c0159b76 c91e79c0 
c8aef190
kernel:        00000000 c217ca40 c91e79c0 cf74f400 c95ea900 c0155477 c91e79c0 
c217ca40
kernel: Call Trace: [journal_get_write_access+54/96] [ext3_orphan_add+135/656]
  [ext3_mark_iloc_dirty+53/80] [__jbd_kmalloc+43/192] 
[start_this_handle+452/640]
kernel: Call Trace: [<c0159b76>] [<c0155477>] [<c0153a65>] [<c015f37b>] 
[<c0158e24>]
kernel:    [journal_start+174/224] [ext3_setattr+132/272] 
[notify_change+79/208]
  [do_truncate+107/160] [lookup_hash+66/144] [open_namei+1033/1328]
kernel:    [<c0158f8e>] [<c0153924>] [<c01423af>] [<c012dfdb>] [<c0139032>] 
[<c0139609>]
kernel:    [dentry_open+195/320] [filp_open+54/96] [sys_open+52/144] 
[system_call+51/56]
kernel:    [<c012ef23>] [<c012ee36>] [<c012f124>] [<c0106edb>]
kernel:
kernel: Code: 0f 0b 8b 45 00 83 c4 14 8b 50 38 8b 70 34 8b 7d 0c 0f b7 40
kernel:  SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 4 lun 0 return code = 28000002
kernel: Current sd08:15: sense key Data Protect
kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium format corrupted

scsi id 4 lun 0 is the optical disk (Panasonic PD drive) but Ext3 fs reports 
on mounting the drive that the disk is sd08:21 and not sd08:15 as above

Using copydir is the only time I ever have problems with this disk/drive in 
practice.

There have also been a couple of, perhaps unrelated, oddities:
kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
I also have frequently seen this:
kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
It seems odd that the kernel should generate an error when there is no disk 
in the drive and it isn't intended that there should be. All sorts of other 
things don't happen that don't generate errors :)

I'm using Mandrake 8.1, with a recompiled  2.4.8-34.1
- Richard.
-- 
Richard Kimber
Political Science Resources:       http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/