Haven't been lurking dutifully recently, but even so, I don't remember any
reports about the following error.
I'm running RH4.2 upgraded to 2.0.32 on a mail, web, dns, and ftp server.
I'm getting a lot of the following in my /var/log/messages file:
Dec 14 01:02:23 discworld kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:03):
ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 53065
Dec 15 01:02:24 discworld kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:03):
ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 53065
Dec 16 01:02:22 discworld kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:03):
ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 53065
Dec 17 01:02:23 discworld kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:03):
ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 53065
Dec 17 09:11:02 discworld kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:03):
ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 53065
This appears to coincide with the redhat daily cron stuff at 1am. (The
09:11 access today was apparently related to my ls -aliR'ing the partition
on /dev/hda3)
inode 53065 is
/ankh/ftp/pub/rh5-i386/misc/src/install/libfdisk:
total 470
53065 ?--------- 0 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 CVS
(this is the full RH5 image pulled down Dec 01)
I was able to remove this whatever successfully.
I also have a lot of
Nov 19 10:19:20 discworld kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:04):
ext2_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file (126508), 0
Nov 19 10:19:20 discworld kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:04):
ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 126508
Nov 19 10:19:21 discworld kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:04):
ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 126506
Nov 19 10:19:21 discworld kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:04):
ext2_unlink: Deleting nonexistent file (126506), 0
Nov 19 10:19:21 discworld kernel: EXT2-fs warning (device 03:04):
ext2_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 126506
but I can't find any inodes within that numeric range any longer on
/dev/hda4.
Questions:
Is this a known problem?
Is it a serious problem? (i.e. if I'm seeing this problem on a production
server, should I downgrade to an earlier kernel with an entirely different
set of bugs? :)
Is there anything more I can do to help its resolution?
TIA,
brian
P.S. still crunch time at work, so please cc me on any replies to the
list. thx.
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brian h. trammell <brian@altara.org> http://www.altara.org/~brian
georgia tech civil engineering system administration
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