fedora 6 kernel panic issues

[Karl Larsen]

Jason Taylor wrote:
> Now it just did it again and I see end_request: I/O error dev sda
> transacton #######
> 
> How could both hard drives be the same?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk] 
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 12:50 PM
> To: For users of Fedora
> Cc: Jason Taylor
> Subject: Re: fedora 6 kernel panic issues
> 
>> once in a while (once or twice a week) the machine locks ups and the
>> console had a bunch of I/O errors related to sba.  I thought this was
> a
> 
> sba or sda - sda is the first SCSI disk (or SATA disk) so its probably a
> disk problem.
> 
>> hard drive problem so I put in a second drive, and booted to an Ubuntu
>> Live CD (I am a little more familiar with it) and used the dd command
> to
>> image the drive over to the new one.  But now I am having the same
>> problem.  While I was ssh in the machine crashed and I saw this on the
>> terminal
>>
>>  
>>
>> kernel: journal commit I/O error
> 
> 
> It couldn't commit journal entries to the disk and update the file
> system. One of your disks went for a hike, the question is why ?
> 
> What kernel ?
> 
	I used Ubuntu 4.5 and it had a early 2.6 kernel way older than FC6 has. 
I think this removes the kernel from consideration and you have 
something wrong in your hard drive.



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