2002-08-13 12:13:38

by Helge Hafting

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Subject: Various trouble in 2.5.31

Some problems and oddities I have seen:

UP, no preempt
* nfs gets stuck sometimes. klogd and rpciod shares the cpu,
umounting is impossible. cat'ing a nfs file shows the
contents but the cat process won't die. Stuck on close?
This also happens with 2.5.30

* ide-cd is broken as module

SMP, with and without preempt.
* During boot I get atkbd not present(ed), and the keyboard
is disabled. It wakes up later in the boot process, so
no big trouble here.

* raid has trouble, even with 4k maximum bio's.
The bootup e2fsck complains that it can't find a valid
superblock on my raid-1 and raid-0 devices, although
mount has no trouble. I get logged complaints about
e2fsck using outdated ioctl's for md. Strange that
fsck should needs to know about raid devices.
Possibly a problem with e2fsck 1.27?

Helge Hafting


2002-08-13 15:11:32

by Trond Myklebust

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Subject: Various trouble in 2.5.31

>>>>> " " == Helge Hafting <[email protected]> writes:

> Some problems and oddities I have seen: UP, no preempt
> * nfs gets stuck sometimes. klogd and rpciod shares the cpu,
> umounting is impossible. cat'ing a nfs file shows the
> contents but the cat process won't die. Stuck on close?
> This also happens with 2.5.30

Could you get me a log from tcpdump and 'echo 1 >/proc/sys/sunrpc/rpc_debug'
when this happens?

Cheers,
Trond

2002-08-13 22:36:36

by NeilBrown

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Subject: Re: Various trouble in 2.5.31

On Tuesday August 13, [email protected] wrote:
> Some problems and oddities I have seen:
>
> * raid has trouble, even with 4k maximum bio's.
> The bootup e2fsck complains that it can't find a valid
> superblock on my raid-1 and raid-0 devices, although
> mount has no trouble. I get logged complaints about
> e2fsck using outdated ioctl's for md. Strange that
> fsck should needs to know about raid devices.
> Possibly a problem with e2fsck 1.27?

The warning about ioctl's is fairly bogus. It gets reported for *any*
unknown ioctl, whether it looks like it might be raid related or not.
So I wouldn't worry about that.

I have a new collection of patches for md which break if fairly
thoroughly. I am about to started testing/fixing and will
make sure that mkfs/fsck/mount work for raid{linear,0,1,5}.

Thanks,
NeilBrown