disk error ...

[K.C. Chan]

All,
I am getting this error:
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,6)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted

it puts root in read only mode, I can not mount it rw. Any idea?

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

Hi,

good thing - this probably means that the transaction in question got interrupted before any incosistency would result.
bad thing - usually one has to re-form the fs journal in that situation, and I couldn't tell You how to do that with ext3...

BUT: look at the following link, and especially at the fsck -C -y and also note, that there ought to be an initial error one line ahead of the 'journal has aborted'-messages.

http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.3/1517.html

[K.C. Chan]

I have already fsck it. Any idea?

[Chakravarthi]

hi,

try getting into single user mode,

any error messages on the console??

regards
chakri

[Steven E. Protter]

A full fsck should clean this up. Otherwise the filesystem in question is corrupted and needs to be restored.

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