SuSE 9.1 Crashes - HD Problem?

OS: SuSE 9.1 Pro with current patches FS Type: ext3 HD Type: IDE I was doing an online update when the system crashed displaying the following syslog entry on all screens: <host> kernel: Assertion failure in journal_dirty_data() at fs/jbd/transactio.c:977: "jh > b_transaction == journal -> j_committing_transaction" Would this be an indicator of a hard drive problem or what? What can be done about it? Thank you, Lucky Leavell