-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:51:42PM -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote: > My recently installed CentOS 4.3 system (which is the kickstart > server for other systems -- see other thread) is currently hung. I > can ping it, but can't do much of anything else. When I switch to > one of the virtual consoles, I can briefly see the "login:" prompt, > but then that window immediately fills with up with the following > message: > > EXT3-fs error (devive dm-0) in start_transaaction: Journal has > aborted > > This is displayed over and over again. I used the default > (automatic) partitioning scheme, so the root file system is an ext3 > partition on a logical volume that spans most of the disk (everything > except for the swap partition and /boot). Anyone else seen this? > Any ideas as to what would cause this? I'll be rebooting the system > shortly... Is it a SATA disk ? I was reading a thread on WHT a few days ago about a server that kept getting its filesystem corrupted in that way, and was only solved (for good) after replacing the SATA cable. - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEfznipdyWzQ5b5ckRAjp8AJ4qBoveePrODE/TQOUvhnu4vfklPQCfTSF5 wLd6aWW7HM/FswRjN3Lvpcg= =YRO+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----