Error: EXT3-fs error (device sda3) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted

Andrew Bacchi bacchi at rpi.edu
Thu Oct 27 13:49:24 UTC 2005


It could be a failing drive.  I would swap drives and rebuild or rsync.

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 09:41, Shane Presley wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having a problem with a RHEL4 system on a 1650.  The system will
> boot fine, run fine for a couple days.  Then it crashes, logging lots
> of these messages to syslog...
> 
> Oct 27 07:15:02 myserver kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda3) in
> start_transaction: Journal has aborted
> Oct 27 07:15:32 myserver kernel: scsi0 (1:0): rejecting I/O to offline device
> 
> It marks / as read-only, and of course the system grinds to a halt. 
> To me this sounds like a hardware (disk or raid?) problem, but I
> wasn't sure if there was anything else I should look at first?
> 
> This happens about once a week.
> Thanks
> Shane
> 
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