RHEL 5 system panics with Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at fs/jbd/commit.c:485

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

We've seen a case where the kernel crashed right after this message was reported in the kernel log (/var/log/kernel):

Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at fs/jbd/commit.c:485: "commit_transaction->t_nr_buffers <= commit_transaction->t_outstanding_credits"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 - 5.4
  • ext3 filesystem

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