<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML DIR=ltr><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></HEAD><BODY><DIV>The following log is being sent to all open terminal sessions on my FC6 system. It is also picked up by kwrite listening on /dev/pts. I have no idea what it is. Also while shutting down the system the /boot partition registers as busy until finally forced to close.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> [root@localhost ~]# Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:28 2007 ... localhost kernel: Assertion failure in dx_probe() at fs/ext3/namei.c:384: "dx_ge t_limit(entries) == dx_root_limit(dir, root->info.info_length)" Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: kernel BUG at fs/ext3/namei.c:384! Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: SMP Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: CPU: 0 Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: EIP: 0060:[<e0bb1f52>] Not tainted VLI Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 #1) Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: EIP is at dx_probe+0x174/0x2d8 [ext3] Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: eax: 00000081 ebx: dba1d33c ecx: c0697ed0 edx: 00000082 Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: esi: c87b0418 edi: 00000000 ebp: c4cdc6d8 esp: cbd23e40 Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: Process updatedb (pid: 3444, ti=cbd23000 task=db2206d0 task.ti =cbd23000) Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: Stack: e0bbd600 e0bbc568 e0bbd5f0 00000180 e0bbd786 00000010 c bd23e64 dba1d33c Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: 00000007 00000000 cb52ee60 cc08a140 dba1d33c 00000000 e 0bb326d cbd23e94 Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: cbd23ec0 ffffffff 00000000 cc08a140 ffffffff 00000000 c bd23f20 c951df00 Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: Call Trace: Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<e0bb326d>] ext3_htree_fill_tree+0x99/0x1ba [ext3] Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<e0babdc2>] ext3_readdir+0x1da/0x5f0 [ext3] Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:29 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c0480714>] vfs_readdir+0x66/0x90 Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:30 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c04807a1>] sys_getdents64+0x63/0xa5 Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:30 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<c040404b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:30 2007 ... localhost kernel: [<0083c402>] 0x83c402 Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:30 2007 ... localhost kernel: ======================= Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:30 2007 ... localhost kernel: Code: 44 24 10 86 d7 bb e0 c7 44 24 0c 80 01 00 00 c7 44 24 08 f0 d5 bb e0 c7 44 24 04 68 c5 bb e0 c7 04 24 00 d6 bb e0 e8 7f 5b 87 df <0f> 0b 80 01 f0 d5 bb e0 8b 44 24 3c 89 44 24 20 66 8b 46 02 66 Message from syslogd@localhost at Thu Mar 8 19:08:30 2007 ... localhost kernel: EIP: [<e0bb1f52>] dx_probe+0x174/0x2d8 [ext3] SS:ESP 0068:cbd2 3e40 [root@localhost ~]# Robert McBroom</DIV></BODY></HTML>