2.4.16 freezes during IDE RAID5 resync

2.4.16 freezes during IDE RAID5 resync

[Rene Rebe]

Hi all!

Due to a f**ked power shortage (no UPS yet) our server had to reboot:
Hardware:

model name      : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping        : 0
cpu MHz         : 350.814

RAM: 128 MB

Aladin5 based Asus board. IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE
(rev 193) and an additional:  Promise Technology, Inc. 20268 (rev 2).

There where 1 (for /) and 3 software RAID 5 IBM-DTLA-305040 each as master
on a single channel connected all using ReiserFS.

The system freezed (no oops - simply freeze) reproduceable during a ReiseFS
check of the / partiotion. (So it doens't even come to the /home md0 one).

I even booted a recsue disc mounted the / (so the transaction-log is clean),
and rebooted. Then it freezes at an ramdon point during the init.d scripts.

I fixed it by removing one IBM disc from the on-board IDE chip's
second channel and adding it to the promisse as slave. Now it works?

The server ran stable for 17 days using a 2.4.14 kernel and using the
2.4.16 since it got out ... I do not know what might be wrong, IDE code,
ALi M5229 IDE code, RAID code (or ReierFS)? - I do not expet it to be fixed
from this lousy bug-report - only that you heared that there might be a problem
somehere in this areas ...

(Oh. I do not like to try this again with our data - and we will have a
UPS in some days ;-) - AND I will never use IDE crapp again :-((( )

Much thanks!
  René

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Re: 2.4.16 freezes during IDE RAID5 resync

[Mike Fedyk]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 07:53:08PM +0100, Rene Rebe wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Due to a f**ked power shortage (no UPS yet) our server had to reboot:
> Hardware:
> 
> model name      : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
> stepping        : 0
> cpu MHz         : 350.814
> 
> RAM: 128 MB
>

SMP 2x366 Celeron, 256MB ram, Debian sid-Unstable (2.4.16)

lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01)
00:08.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7881U (rev 01)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21041 [Tulip Pass 3] (rev 21)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G100 [Productiva] AGP (rev 01)

/proc/isapnp:
Card 1 'CTL0044:Creative SB32 PnP' PnP version 1.0 Product version 1.0

> There where 1 (for /) and 3 software RAID 5 IBM-DTLA-305040 each as master
> on a single channel connected all using ReiserFS.
>

Just /home in ext3 (data=journal) on /dev/md0

Personalities : [raid1] 
read_ahead 1024 sectors
md0 : active raid1 hda3[0] sda3[1]
      3927808 blocks [2/2] [UU]
      
unused devices: <none>


hda: FUJITSU MPB3043ATU
sda: Vendor: IBM      Model: DCAS-34330W      Rev: S65A

> The system freezed (no oops - simply freeze) reproduceable during a ReiseFS
> check of the / partiotion. (So it doens't even come to the /home md0 one).
>
> I even booted a recsue disc mounted the / (so the transaction-log is clean),
> and rebooted. Then it freezes at an ramdon point during the init.d scripts.
>

Didn't crash (hang, no oops, interrupts off -- no sysrq, no capslock/numlock
response) during the init scripts, but did while X was running during a
raid1 reconstruction.

> I fixed it by removing one IBM disc from the on-board IDE chip's
> second channel and adding it to the promisse as slave. Now it works?
>
> The server ran stable for 17 days using a 2.4.14 kernel and using the
> 2.4.16 since it got out ... I do not know what might be wrong, IDE code,

2.4.14+ext3 was also reliable for me.

Common items in our setups are IDE and RAID.

I can run some tests if anyone comes up with something.

mf