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For your information if you haven't seen it. I can't comment on the |
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problem described here; I'm only passing it on as a possible warning. |
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Regards, |
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Ferris |
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-------- Forwarded Message -------- |
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From: Will Simoneau <simoneau@×××××××.edu> |
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To: sparclinux@×××××××××××.org |
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Subject: 2.6.17 + sym53c876 causes many i/o errors |
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:56:56 -0400 |
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I just tried out 2.6.17 on my U80 (4x450, 2560MB), which boots off the |
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onboard SCSI card (Symbios 53c876) from a sw raid1 of 2 disks. The disks |
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are original Sun UW-SCSI Seagate 18G 10k disks, internal cabling is all |
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original. Filesystem is ext3 with dir_index on. Distro is Gentoo, |
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running ~sparc. |
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Result: many I/O errors, leading to some filesystem corruption! I was |
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lucky to notice and quickly go back to 2.6.15 and run a full fsck, which |
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found some problems. One of the disks was marked failed by the raid1 |
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driver, since it was returning lots of errors... it looks like the raid1 |
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driver didn't give up as easily on the last disk, allowing the machine |
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to still function. |
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The old kernel is 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 installed via portage. Toolchain and |
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utility versions from ver_linux: |
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Gnu C 3.4.6 |
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Gnu make 3.81 |
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binutils 2.16.1 |
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util-linux 2.12r |
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mount 2.12r |
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module-init-tools 3.2.2 |
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e2fsprogs 1.38 |
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reiserfsprogs 3.6.19 |
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xfsprogs 2.7.11 |
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quota-tools 3.13. |
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PPP 2.4.3 |
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Linux C Library so.6 .> libc |
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Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.3.6 |
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Procps 3.2.6 |
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Net-tools 1.60 |
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Kbd 1.12 |
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Sh-utils 5.96 |
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udev 090 |
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This is obviously a really dangerous bug, whatever it is, as it will |
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easily cause corruption on the root filesystem before booting is finished. Both SCSI channels on the dual channel card return errors easily. This wasn't a |
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problem on 2.6.15. |
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Full kernel log from 2.6.17 boot to shutdown, and .config are attached. |
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This kernel is gentoo-sources-2.6.17 from portage, let me know if you |
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need a list of patches that are included. |
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BTW, I can't fiddle much with this machine besides testing a couple |
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patches. Doing a bisect to find the bad patch is out of the question. |
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What gives? |
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-- |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc) |