help deciphering kernel message 2006-01-03 - By David L. Parsley
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On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 08:45 -0500, Marc Wiatrowski wrote:
> We have a box that has been running for over a year now with out problems but
as
> of the past week or so has been getting syslog messages like the following.
>
> Jan 3 01:50:01 serverx kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Jan 3 01:50:01 serverx kernel: 08:13: rw=1, want=1038022788, limit=34869082
>
> They occur at seem to be random times, sometimes hours apart, sometimes days.
>
> I am assuming its disk related and is the following device?
>
> $ ls -al /dev/sda13
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 13 Jun 24 2004 /dev/sda13
>
> But my partitions are:
>
> $ cat /proc/partitions
> major minor #blocks name rio rmerge rsect ruse wio wmerge wsect wuse
running use aveq
[snip]
> 8 19 34869082 sdb3 5100492 44303847 391471498 4728847 124716687
159852667 2302155210
> 18012729 0 911964 13787807
> So I guess my question is, how would I find out what 8:13 is?
8:13 is hexadecimal - that would be the 8, 19 decimal device, sdb3.
Another clue is going beyond the limit of 34869082, shown above for
sdb3.
A quick google found two possible causes: filesystem corruption -
metadata referencing beyond the end of the disk; or bad RAM, causing
problems accessing swap.
regards,
David
>
> thanks,
> marc
>
>
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