From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tejun Heo Subject: Re: Processes dying with ENXIO or EINTR - disk related? Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:13:17 +0900 Message-ID: <4992343D.1040504@kernel.org> References: <499229DF.50708@kernel.org> <49922CC2.8020705@seiner.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:58081 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752952AbZBKCNI (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:13:08 -0500 In-Reply-To: <49922CC2.8020705@seiner.com> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Yan Seiner Cc: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Yan Seiner wrote: >> Highly unlikely it's related to IO. >> > I was experimenting with nouveau, an xorg driver for nvidia hardware. > Turns out that driver left the scsi hardware in a weird state that was > causing the segfaults. A warm reboot wouldn't cure it; only a total > power down and wait 30 seconds cycle did. Machine stable since then. > > At a guess something in the nouveau driver screwed up the scsi > controller in the machine. That's a scary story. :-( -- tejun