Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Andre Truter <andre.truter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 18:12, Carl wrote:
> >
> > I think I found the reason why my machine crash:
> >
> > It seems to be an filesystem error. When the machine crashed just now, I
> > had a root terminal open and the kernel displayed the following message
> > as it's last dying words:
> > journel-712 :buffer write failed
> >
> > This message never gets written to any log file (the filesystem is
> > broken by then)
> >
> > I googled, but I did not find much, except for the kernel code and some
> > suggestions on changes in the code.
> >
> > Has anybody seen this before?
> >
> > Can I fix it?
> >
> > Thanks
> 
> 
> Make sure disableapic is in lilo.conf.

Hi Everybody,

I think I found my problem and it is solved!

I disabled DMA on the new drive and I added disableapic to lilo.
I found a test on the SuSE SDB that tests hardware - the sig11 test.

It ran through 50 cycles without any errors!

Thanks for all the input and suggestions
-- 

Andre Truter
Software Engineer
Registered Linux user #185282
ICQ #40935899  AIM: trusoftzaf
http://www.trusoft.za.net

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