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SubjectRe: 2.4.22-pre3 and reiserfs boot problem
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On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 08:01, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> On 06 Jul 2003 14:13:44 -0400
> Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > Is reiserfs on your root drive? If not can you please boot into single
> > user mode, enable sysrq, try the mount again and get the decoded output
> > from sysrq-p and sysrq-t if it hangs.
> >
> > -chris
>
> Hello Chris,
>
> I tried to produce some useful output but failed. Additionals I found:
>
> - pre3-ac1 has the same problem
> - the box _hangs_ in fact, no sysrq is working.
> (you need hw-reset to revive the box)
> - I can see no disk activity on the 3ware RAID in question
> - It always shows up, completely reproducable
> - It shows during boot and during single- or multiuser (mount from console)

Step one is to figure out if the problem is reiserfs or 3ware. Instead
of mounting the filesystem, run debugreiserfs -d /dev/xxxx > /dev/null
and see if you still hang.

This will read the FS metadata and should generate enough io to trigger
the hang if it is a 3ware problem.

(I'm on vacation for a few days, so Oleg is cc'd)

-chris


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