Re: Can't seem to recover errors

[Stephen Tweedie <sct redhat com>]

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 04:18:39PM -0400, Daniel Andor <Daniel Andor physics org> wrote:
 
> > When trying to run a particular program, I reproducibly get a few
> > dozen kernel messages of the form:
> > 
> > attempt to access beyond end of device
> > 03:06: rw=0, want=536995844, limit=11680168
> > attempt to access beyond end of device
> > 03:06: rw=0, want=1342296068, limit=11680168

> EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 788558848, count = 1
> Kernel panic: EXT3-fs panic (device ide0(3,6)): load_block_bitmap: block_group >= groups_count - block_group = 131071, groups_count = 90

What kernel?  What sort of hardware?  Are there any other log
messages?  This could easily be a sign of random data corruption
hitting disk, for example --- it's a vague problem description so far,
so any extra detail you can provide would help.

> I've tried fsck when the systemm is ro, but it doesn't make any difference.  

Did fsck find any errors?  What do you mean when you say it makes no
difference --- exactly the same problem occurs again later, or is the
next problem similar but slightly different in detail?

--Stephen