Assertion Failure

[Adam Cormany]

I'm not sure if I'm in the correct mailing list so if I'm not, please let me know.   In the last weeks time, I have installed Redhat 7.3 on a Quad Xeon and everything was going very smoothly except for one thing. After about 26 hours of uptime on the system, a system wide wall message of:   kernel: Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at commit.c:535: "buffer_jdirty(bh)"   was sent out. The system then locked completely and had to be powered down by the power button. The system then ran normal again for about 28 hours of uptime and then another system wide wall message was displayed. The message was about the Assertion failure again. This time the system did not completely freeze up, but it played havoc on the system. The uptime load went from less than 1.0 to over 12.0 and commands were locking the login sessions completely up.   Is this a known bug, and also, is there a fix? This is a pretty nasty error since it has happened twice in a short amount of uptime and everytime it has happened, the system needed booted. Please help.   Thanks Adam Cormany