Re: corrupted disk

[Peter Nixon <listuser@peternixon.net>]

On Tuesday 11 October 2005 16:55, Sander wrote:
> Peter Nixon wrote (ao):
> > On Tuesday 11 October 2005 16:31, Sander wrote:
> > > Peter Nixon wrote (ao):
> > > > At 06:15 this morning the following errors showed up in
> > > > /var/log/messages
> > > >
> > > > Oct 11 06:15:03 DB2MUHASEBE kernel: kernel BUG at prints.c:334!
> > > > Oct 11 06:15:03 DB2MUHASEBE kernel: invalid operand: 0000
> > > > 2.4.21-138-smp #1 SMP Fri Oct 31 00:51:31 UTC 2003
> > > >
> > > > Oct 11 06:15:03 DB2MUHASEBE kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c5096ec8>]   
> > > > Tainted: P
> > >
> > > Your kernel is very, very old and tainted.
> >
> > Yes. I am aware of that. As I mentioned the server is an IBM server
> > running SUSE Linux Enterprise 8 and DB2. At the time of deployment of the
> > server SLES 9 was not yet certified to run with DB2.
>
> What I'm trying to say is that you are very unlikely to receive support
> on such an old kernel. And most likely the bug is fixed in a younger
> kernel.
>
> And, you are also running a tainted kernel. You are less likely to
> receive support on a tainted kernel.

Yes I understand the issue, however without running an official SLES kernel 
the customer cannot receive support on DB2 or on their IBM hardware. If there 
is a bug in the kernel that causes this then I need to get SUSE to roll a new 
kernel and get it certified by IBM. If it is a bug in the SCSI driver (the 
module that taints the kernel) then I need to report it to IBM and get them 
to supply a fixed module.

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