I'm getting these messages logged in /var/log/messages. Should I be worried?
The system has had a number of unclean shutdowns due to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550724
kernel versions that I've seen this on:
kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.x86_64
kernel-2.6.32.6-36.fc12.x86_64
These are ext4 filesystems.
Feb 5 15:04:57 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr =
2886175). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:04:57 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr =
69752). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:04:57 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr =
69752). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:05:09 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-1, blocknr =
1071367). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:05:09 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-1, blocknr =
1071367). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:05:21 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr =
2886176). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:05:21 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr =
2886176). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:05:22 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr =
69753). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:05:22 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr =
69753). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:15:04 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr =
69754). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:15:04 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr =
69754). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:37:01 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-1, blocknr =
1071369). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:37:01 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-1, blocknr =
1071369). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:37:04 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr =
69755). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:37:04 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr =
69755). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:48:04 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr =
2886178). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:48:04 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr =
2886178). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:59:06 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-1, blocknr =
1071370). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:59:06 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-1, blocknr =
1071370). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:59:11 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr =
69756). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:59:11 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr =
69756). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:59:13 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr =
2886179). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
Feb 5 15:59:13 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr =
2886179). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
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Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer
University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
ngaywood(a)une.edu.au Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 3337
http://mcs.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312
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