[CentOS] EXT3-fs error (devive dm-0) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
Alfred von Campe
alfred at 110.net
Wed Aug 2 14:03:01 UTC 2006
> Maybe the disk is dying? Did you run smartd (it requires -d ata for
> SATA disks; this option needs to be put in smartd.conf)?
It's a brand new disk (well, less than three months old), and it
pretty much did it from the get-go (as did the previous disk). I've
replaced the SATA cable and updated the system BIOS (it's a Lenovo
ThinkCentre M51, and I am using the on-board SATA controller) as
previously suggested. I was hoping that the errors logged with
syslog would help uncover the root cause. It just so happens that
the first time after I configure syslog to log to another system, the
disk becomes unbootable.
> The error messages could also indicate bad cables.
I already replaced the cable, and this is is an intermittent error.
> I would boot from the CentOS 4.3 Live-CD, and take a look at the
> disk with smartctl. If the disk is indeed dying, I'd try to save
> its contents to a fresh disk, using ddrescue. Unfortunately there
> are 2 programs with this name (http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/
> ddrescue/ and http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html);
> I have very good results with the latter - don't know if it's on
> the LiveCD (if not, it should!).
Great idea, booting from the CD as I type this. I had tried booting
the install CD in rescue mode, but that resulted in a kernel panic
when it tried to mount the disk. Let's hope I have more luck with
the LiveCD.
Alfred
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