Re: mass file delete problem with nautilus ?

[Rod Butcher <rbutcher hyenainternet com>]

On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 10:46 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 22:15 +1000, Rod Butcher wrote:
> > I've had a problem occurring fairly regularly when I use nautilus to
> > empty a lot of ext3 files (1000's) from the wastebasket - after a while
> > the disk goes into "read-only" state - cant delete or create any files.
> > Yet hdparm shows the disk is still in readwrite mode.
> > This problem hasn't occurred using konqueror to delete a similar volume
> > of data from the kde wastebasket, nor when the same activity is done
> > from the console. This is a heavy duty work disk with high file
> > turnover.. so my question is, how do I check whether it is in fact
> > nautilus causing this, or some other component it uses, or even my build
> > could be wrong (from cvs head) ?
> > This is a 120 gig WDC IDE drive. I understand it has smaller buffers
> > than other makes such as Seagate.
> > thanks
> > Rod
> 
> When this happens, do you get any errors or warnings in the system logs?
> It sounds like ext3 finds a fatal disk error and goes into readonly
> mode.
Uh.. yes, it did. Syslog messages follow. But why would this only occur
when emptying nautilus's trashcan ? Apart from that precise situation,
this disk pounds away 24x7 with no problems. ?? I tested this with
several gigabytes of soft-deletes from /dev/hde5 using konqueror, then
deleted them from trashcan all in one hit - no problems.
thanks. Rod

Sep  1 18:30:27 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hde5):
ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 4022338200,
count = 1
Sep  1 18:30:27 localhost kernel: Aborting journal on device hde5.
Sep  1 18:30:27 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hde5) in
ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
Sep  1 18:30:27 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hde5) in
ext3_truncate: Journal has aborted
Sep  1 18:30:27 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hde5) in
ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
Sep  1 18:30:27 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hde5) in
ext3_orphan_del: Journal has aborted
Sep  1 18:30:27 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hde5) in
ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
Sep  1 18:30:27 localhost kernel: journal commit I/O error
Sep  1 18:30:27 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hde5) in
ext3_delete_inode: Journal has aborted
Sep  1 18:30:27 localhost kernel: ext3_abort called.
Sep  1 18:30:27 localhost kernel: EXT3-fs error (device hde5):
ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal
Sep  1 18:30:27 localhost kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only
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