Bryn M. Reeves wrote: > Was there anything else logged? logs are blank. this is shown in terminal view. > Reiserfs is reporting a write error while writing to the journal. in first of listing to screen, reiserfs was first of screen writes, followed by ext3. > Was a similar message logged by ext3 prior to the "ext3_abort called" message? screen messages are in order as i listed them. not complete, but in order. > Do you have any SCSI/SATA messages logged? no scsi/sata error messages logged. there may be something, but it is not anything related to errors. > This looks like you may have problems with your storage but these > messages aren't sufficient to tell what's going on. my apologies for lack of details in post. i was too disappointed in lack of finding anything from google search and not thinking fully when i posted. ~~~ in this box, i also have scientific linux 5.4 and fedora 8, both with latest updates, and do not have any problems with hard drives. /dev/sda1 / sl5.4 ext3 journal /dev/sda2 swap /dev/sda5 /home sl5.4 reiserfs journal /dev/sdb1 /boot reiserfs /dev/sdb2 swap /dev/sdb5 / f8 ext3 journal /dev/sdb6 / f10 ext3 journal /dev/sdb7 [spare] reiserfs journal /dev/sdb8 /usr f10 reiserfs journal /dev/sdb9 /var f10 reiserfs journal /dev/sdb10 [spare] reiserfs journal /dev/sdb11 /home reiserfs journal /dev/sdb12 / f8 ext3 journal /dev/sda is used for internet only, with sdb unmounted /dev/sdb is used for non internet, with sda mounted under /hd/a/01,05 /dev/sda1 has a /boot directory and files for sl 5.4 only /dev/sdb1 has boot files for all distributions ~~~ problem was present before mounting additional partitions under f10, and before moving f10 /usr and /var to reiserfs, which was done for more room to run updates. in first post, i stated; > from start of installation of f10, 4 months ago, to present, f10 has been > having a problem of staying operational, in that after being up for a short > time, it would bomb and have just now found problem. to clarify, i had seen problem previously, but dismissed it and continued with trying to learn f10 and kde4. i always boot level 3 with initial login as user at vt-f1, and start kde from vt-f5. when i first noticed that there was a problem, i had kde running and went to vt-f3 to run first updates because i was having problems with packagekit. update failed, and i dismissed it as a kde problem. after reboot, i logged in as root and ran 'yum update' without problems. rebooted and went to f8 to do work until i had f10 ready to move operations to f10. i have made several more updates which succeeded, and rebooted after, returning to sl5.4 and f8. now, any time that i stay in f10/kde, i get lockup after 15 to 20 minutes. again, thanks for help. any further advice will be greatly appreciated as i would like to remove f8 to make room for f12. [ i like even numbers. :) ] later -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look at* it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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