Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2001 16:01:37 +0200 | From | Hendrik Visage <> | Subject | Re: another 2.4.12 + aacraid + SuSE failure. |
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Attached the versions etc. of the installed software:
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 07:56:54AM -0600, Steve_Boley@Dell.com wrote: > You are the first person that has reported this issue with anything below > 2.4.10 kernel. I'm kicking this over to one of our engineers and hopefully > we can start coming up with something and figure what the fault is here. > Here is something that Hendrik has found that might help find an answer. > Hendrik any luck so far????? Can you kick back and tell what if anything > you have updated besides the kernel in the system? > > Using SGL (sorcerer.wox.org) Linux 2.4.13 + patches > It appears to be only for the ext2 FS's and not for the reiserfs. > > Interesting, if you've compiled in kernel debugging & the SysReq key stuff, > and then issue an emergency sync (Alt-SysReq-S) it works to break the ext2 > out of the lock. > > An strace of a hanging e2fsck, hangs at the opening of the device... > > I'll perhaps have to try the -ac patches then ... > > Hendrik > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Pascoe [mailto:c.pascoe@itee.uq.edu.au] > Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 7:29 AM > To: Steve_Boley@exchange.dell.com > Subject: RE: another 2.4.12 + aacraid + SuSE failure. > > > Hi Steve, > > I don't understand what you're trying to tell me - so perhaps you read my > message wrong. I know about alan's patches, I've written a fair bit of > kernel code over the past few years for various reasons, and tracked the > ac kernels along the way - and do know how to clean the kernel tree > completely, etc. I thought we also determined it was a kernel problem a > while back too. > > The problem _is still there_ in the official RH kernel 2.4.9-13 - based on > Alan's kernel!!! It's not fixed by the AC patches at 2.4.9, at least. > It appeared to be fine, but after a few days of running variants of them, > it dies just the same as before. > > RH7.1 is supposedly "supported" by Dell; the kernel I am running is an > errata upgrade for it, so it needs to be fixed back in this kernel version > - going to "vanilla" 2.4.10 and losing the little support that we have > isn't an option. Going to non-redhat kernels also isn't an option if I > want to run the tested XFS kernel releases on my 3 identical production > servers too, and expect any support from the XFS guys when there's > hiccups. > > So, I've got a RH 2.4.9-13 compiled locally now with kdb in it. > Eventually the machine runs out of memory (it seems) if you leave it > sitting at the "Checking root filesystem" and I get a traceback of the > kernel state. If you break to kdb prior to the crash (i.e. while the > machine appears hung), or wait for it to crash you get an extremely > strange traceback on the fsck.ext2 process - that suggests something in > the kernel has overwritten something in memory in a bad way. I just hard > crashed my machine setting breakpoints to try to figure out what was going > on / where this overwriting happens, so I can't try any more (it's 11pm > local time, anyway - I should be sleeping). > > Chris > > On Tue, 6 Nov 2001 Steve_Boley@Dell.com wrote: > > > Found that the problem is kernel oriented in some way. I went and got > Alan > > Cox's patches for the 2.4.10 and applied the latest did a make mrproper > > which starts completely over and then applied the aacraid patch again and > > then recompiled and is coming up clean every time now. RedHat kernels are > > built and based on Alan Cox's kernel so there is some patch he has in the > > kernel that is fixing the issues. So if you go to kernel.org and go to > > linux and then kernel and then people his folder is alan and he has > patches > > for every 2.4 version there is in this folder. I was experiencing the > same > > hangs due to the fact that I have Mandrake 8.1 loaded on the PE2500 > instead > > of Redhat and it seems to be for now that Suse and Mandrake have the > problem > > for sure and I'm not very sure about Debian at this point. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Chris Pascoe [mailto:c.pascoe@itee.uq.edu.au] > > Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 8:06 PM > > To: Steve_Boley@exchange.dell.com > > Cc: linux-PowerEdge@exchange.dell.com; > > linux-aacraid-devel@exchange.dell.com > > Subject: Re: another 2.4.12 + aacraid + SuSE failure. > > > > > > Hi Steve, > > > > > Been pounding away on recompiling 2.4.10 on PE2500 with PERC3/DI and was > > > getting the same hang at CHECKING ROOT FILESYSTEM. > > [...] > > > > I'm now seeing these hangs with the RedHat 2.4.9-13 kernel - 4 consecutive > > reboots now, it's just hung on but it has been fine before. I'll power > > cycle the machine (test box) shortly. Any further ideas / news on this > bug? > > > > Chris > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-PowerEdge mailing list > > Linux-PowerEdge@dell.com > > http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge > > > bash:utils:installed:2.05 bin86:devel:installed:0.16.0 binutils:devel:installed:2.11.2 bison:devel:installed:1.28 busybox:utils:installed:0.60.1 bzip2:archive:installed:1.0.1 console-data:utils:installed:1999.08.29 console-tools:utils:installed:0.2.3 dhcp:net:installed:3.0 diffutils:devel:installed:2.7 e2fsprogs:utils:installed:1.25 ed:editors:installed:0.2 exim:mail:installed:3.33 file:utils:installed:3.36 fileutils:utils:installed:4.1 findutils:utils:installed:4.1 flex:devel:installed:2.5.4a gawk:editors:installed:3.1.0 gcc:devel:installed:2.95.3 gettext:devel:installed:0.10.39 glibc:devel:installed:2.2.4 grep:utils:installed:2.4.2 groff:doc:installed:1.17.2 gzip:archive:installed:1.2.4a hc-cron:utils:installed:0.14 jed:editors:installed:B0.99-15 less:utils:installed:358 lynx:web:installed:2.8.4 make:devel:installed:3.79.1 man-pages:doc:installed:1.42 man:doc:installed:1.5i2 modutils:utils:installed:2.4.10 mutt:mail:installed:1.3.23 ncurses:devel:installed:5.2 net-tools:net:installed:1.60 parted:utils:installed:1.4.20 patch:devel:installed:2.5.4 pcmcia-cs:utils:installed:3.1.29 ppp:net:installed:2.4.1 procps:utils:installed:2.0.7 readline:devel:installed:4.2 sed:editors:installed:3.02 shadow:utils:installed:4.0.0 slang:devel:installed:1.4.4 sysvinit:utils:installed:2.82 tar:archive:installed:1.13 texinfo:doc:installed:4.0 textutils:utils:installed:2.0 traceroute:net:installed:1.4a12 unzip:archive:installed:5.42 wget:ftp:installed:1.7 zlib:archive:installed:1.1.3 at:utils:installed:3.1.8 dialog:utils:installed:0.9a-20011014 lvm:utils:installed:1.0.1-rc4 nano:editors:installed:1.0.6 lftp:ftp:installed:2.4.6 linux:devel:installed:2.4.13 cpio:archive:installed:2.4.2 lilo:utils:installed:22.1 sh-utils:utils:installed:2.0 netkit-telnet:net:installed:0.17 perl:devel:installed:5.6.1 openssl:net:installed:0.9.6b xinetd:net:installed:2.3.3 tcp_wrappers:net:installed:7.6 openjade:doc:installed:1.3 linuxdoc-tools:doc:installed:0.9.10 Linux-PAM:utils:installed:0.75 sudo:utils:installed:1.6.3p7 screen:terminal:installed:3.9.10 vim:editors:installed:6.0 sorcery:utils:installed:20011104 bind-tools:net:installed:9.1.3 sysklogd:utils:installed:1.4.1 strace:devel:installed:4.4 openssh:net:installed:2.9.9p2 gdbm:devel:installed:1.8.0 db:devel:installed:3.3.11
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