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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] severe problems to remove invalid/full snapshots with	debian-etch
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:18:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E8A2B5.3020103@wpkg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070302210230.GA10659@iss.tu-darmstadt.de>

Tom Assmuth schrieb:
> hi,
> 
> i gave up using lvm2 with debian sarge cause to a lot of problems
> concerning stability but now i gave it another try with my debian-etch
> box. but here problems with snapshots are still severe.
> 
> --
> used system:
> kernel: 2.6.18-3-686 (normal kernel version in etch)
> lvm version
>   LVM version:     2.02.07 (2006-07-17)
>   Library version: 1.02.08 (2006-07-17)
>   Driver version:  4.7.0
> --
> 
> problem: 
> 
> if a snapshot runs full (having attributes like this calling
> lvs: Swi-I- ) I of course try to remove it with lvremove:
> 
> this will throw something like this on all consoles:
> 
>  kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:595!
>  invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]
>  EIP is at kmem_cache_free+0x29/0x6d
>  esi: daa2f28c   edi: d9439a88   ebp: 00036c68   esp: c593fdb0
>  Process lvremove (pid: 25402, ti=c593e000 task=c533aaa0 task.ti=c593e000)
>  Stack: 15f529ae daa2f28c dd08dc68 dc86c94e dbf84220 00006d8d 00008000 daa2f240
>  ...
>  EIP: [<c0156f55>] kmem_cache_free+0x29/0x6d SS:ESP 0068:c593fdb0
>  ...

(...)

Check the answer to my earlier post ("moving logical volumes to another 
system *remotely* - how?") by Bryn M. Reeves:

   This is a known issue in older kernels that was fixed upstream in
   2.6.19. See:

   http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0612.1/2301.html
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204791


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-02 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-02 21:02 [linux-lvm] severe problems to remove invalid/full snapshots with debian-etch Tom Assmuth
2007-03-02 22:18 ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2007-03-05 18:47   ` Tom Assmuth

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