[wplug] Input/output error

[Ryan Brown]

Exact error..

I type just about any command such as ls, cp, reboot and I get input/out
error returned to me.

It is a Tyan Dual Processor PIII machine with the latest bios and a new WD
160 GB 8 meg cache drive. I am running 2.4.20 kernel.

In dmesg I see.

Journalled Block Device driver loaded
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: ide0(3,3): orphan cleanup on readonly fs
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 81830
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 122584
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 122583
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 122582
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 122581
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 81724
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 122579
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 122578
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 122577
ext3_orphan_cleanup: deleting unreferenced inode 81706
EXT3-fs: ide0(3,3): 10 orphan inodes deleted
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 156k freed
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
Adding Swap: 2097136k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
Vanco, Donald
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 11:06 PM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: RE: [wplug] Input/output error


You wouldn't care to bore us with details like exact error syntax, hardware
involved (drive(s), mobo/controller chipset) or kernel rev, would you? Is
the BIOS current?  The OS? Exotic kernel patches? Do you swap this drive
routinely between boxen? When it spits these messages to you look at any of
the logs?
 
Don

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ryan Brown [mailto:wplug at tblive.com] 
Sent: Sun 8/24/2003 10:36 PM 
To: wplug at wplug.org 
Cc: 
Subject: [wplug] Input/output error


This is driving me crazy... I keep getting Input/output error errors when I
run commands such as "ls", etc.
 
One would think the drive is bad but I know for sure it is not as I have
used 3 different brand new drives on this machine and each is reporting the
same problem. Also tried the one drive in another machine to make sure it
wasn't the controller, ram, etc. The weird thing is... It happens every 7-10
days. If I reboot then it goes back to normal and all works fine for another
7-10 days before it starts saying Input/output error and I need to reboot it
again, so something is definitely wrong.
 
This is a RH 9 box running ext3.
 
Any suggestions on what to try?
 
Ryan

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