From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <3AEFCAA4.78EB3E5D@gecpalau.com> Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 17:51:48 +0900 From: Glenn Shannon MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] processes remain in D-state,, using lvm, reiserfs and VIA-Board kernel 2.4.2+ References: <14345253444.20010502102551@lzer.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Jan Walzer wrote: > Hello people, > > > using LVM and reiserfs on an disk connected on an VIA-Promise > controler, leaves different processes in D-state when accessing some > directories on this disk. > This is since kernel 2.4.2 until now on kernel 2.4.4-ac1 > The disk then is 'busy' and can't be umounted, so there is no clean > way to reboot the system. sometimes even SysReq-S,SysReq-U won't > umount, stopping on the LVM-Device. > > > > I don't know where to start. > My company gave me the job to care for the server in our new office. I > was told only to look for it a bit. They already had it configured. > > It's an Athlon1,2GHz on an ASUS board with VIA and an Promise-IDE > controller. Filesystem was on an IBM 30GB-SCSI disk, connected to an > Adaptec. 1024MB-ram > > The "best"-thing: One BIG '/'-partition, where nearly all the data is > stored on ... yeah these guys were good. > As they already made it ready, they rsynced the data of their server > in the old office with this one. so there are 'bout 20GB data on the > disk, meaning only having 6GB left. > > No Problems so far, except for power failures, when it needs to fsck > the whole disk. > > 3weeks ago I got an 40MB-Maxtor-IDE for moving parts of the data on > it. I connected it to the Promise that is onboard. I decided, to do > it better than them, and create an LVM. I ended in having 2 LVs on > the disk, using Reiser. All seems to work well, except, for the told > problem. > > > > Is there a probleme like this known? > What further informations do you need ? - I'll try to support as much > information, as I can. > > > > -- > > ,', Jan Walzer \V/ http://wa.lzer.net ,', > ',',' student of >|< mailto:jan.w@lzer.net ',',' > ' ComputerScience /A\ +49-177-7403863 ' > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm Here is a way to check (as I have had this problem before): right before the line in /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt that states: mount -n -o remount,ro / put: lsof >/root/lsofoutput.txt Then reboot and check the lsofoutput.txt file and see what is being used......my thinking is that you'll see a bunch of stuff in the /usr/lib directory being used by various processes. That would indicate a problem with the method used to copy the files to their new partitions. Meaning that a bunch of the symlinks are now broken. I have scripts to repair all of this so if you need, ask. Let us know how the output from that goes. TTYL Glenn