Driver Issue or Hardware Failing....

[Wujciak, James (US SSA)]

Thanks- I have been able to boot and have the OS recognize that a fsck
is needed. The fsck is taking a very long time (2+ hours) so far.

-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-newbie-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-newbie-bounces at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On Behalf
Of Norberto Quintanar
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:54 AM
To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List
Subject: Re: Driver Issue or Hardware Failing....

If you have the boot disk boot into rescue mode make sure your
powerbooks hard drive is unmounted, thet run fsck.  


--- "Wujciak, James (US SSA)" <james.wujciak at baesystems.com> wrote:

> On a PowerBook G4 running 2.6.10-1.ydl.1, I have had seen more than
> once, an XWindows pop-up from syslogd: "kernel: journal commit I/o
> error". Once this happens most commands fail with the message
> "Input/output error" and switching to an alternate (Non-X) window
> shows
> the error "EXT-3 error (device hda3) in start-transition: Journal
> has
> aborted."
> 
> At this point only  power-off will shutdown the machine.. and the
> fsck
> takes about an hour to complete. Has anyone seen similar problems
> or
> have an idea if it is an ext-3/driver issue or a failing hard drive
> 
> 
> Jim 


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