From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Waldo Subject: Kernel panic during resync Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:08:35 -0400 Message-ID: <44DC8153.8010105@waldoware.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Hi all, I've got a machine with a RAID6 array which hung on me yesterday. Upon reboot, mdadm refused to start the array, since it was degraded and dirty. The array had 7 drives, and one had previously gone bad. I'm running Fedora Core 5. I rebooted, using the "md-mod.start_dirty_degraded=1" parameter. Everything seemed to be OK--the sync process started and I watched it go for about half an hour. I came back later, and found the machine had a kernel panic with the message "Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt". Just to make sure, I restarted and tried to sync again, but got the same message. What might be causing this? Is there any way to recover? Thanks in advance! Paul