[gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware

[gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

I just want to warn everybody about the 2.6.30 kernel 
(gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r2)

First, it seems to run fine on modern hardware with SATA drives
(AMD64 in my case)

BUT, on two old machines with SMP and IDE drivers (different
controllers) the kernel randomly hangs and what is worse,
it has destroyed a filesystem in such a way that even fsck
(from a rescue cd with an 2.6.29 kernel) hangs.
I had to make a pristine filesystem on that partition.

There are some reports on the kernel mailing list and the
kernel bug tracker which talk about similar problems
on some hardware.

If some has more news (e.g. on how to fix that)
I'd be very interested.
Thanks,
Helmut.

-- 
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware

[Mick]

2009/7/9 Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>:
> Hi,
>
> I just want to warn everybody about the 2.6.30 kernel
> (gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r2)
>
> First, it seems to run fine on modern hardware with SATA drives
> (AMD64 in my case)
>
> BUT, on two old machines with SMP and IDE drivers (different
> controllers) the kernel randomly hangs and what is worse,
> it has destroyed a filesystem in such a way that even fsck
> (from a rescue cd with an 2.6.29 kernel) hangs.
> I had to make a pristine filesystem on that partition.
>
> There are some reports on the kernel mailing list and the
> kernel bug tracker which talk about similar problems
> on some hardware.
>
> If some has more news (e.g. on how to fix that)
> I'd be very interested.
> Thanks,
> Helmut.


Thanks for the warning Helmut.  I am still trying to get the 2.6.29 to
work on my old laptop and was hoping that the 2.6.30 would offer a
fix, but from what you are saying it may be a retrograde step in old
hardware like mine.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware

[Keith Dart]

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 12:26:00 +0100
Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the warning Helmut.  I am still trying to get the 2.6.29 to
> work on my old laptop and was hoping that the 2.6.30 would offer a
> fix, but from what you are saying it may be a retrograde step in old
> hardware like mine.

That's interesting. I have a new i7 system and any kernel earlier than
2.6.30-r2 would not boot from hard disk on my system (but would boot
same image from USB flash, strange). This new kernel finally fixed it
for me where I can boot from the hard disk. But seems to have broken
older systems...



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Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware

[William Kenworthy]

Was there any oops evident (in dmesg) and reiserfs involved? This is
whats biting me at the moment on 2 systems with 2.6.29/30.

BilLK

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 13:13 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just want to warn everybody about the 2.6.30 kernel 
> (gentoo-sources-2.6.30-r2)
> 
> First, it seems to run fine on modern hardware with SATA drives
> (AMD64 in my case)
> 
> BUT, on two old machines with SMP and IDE drivers (different
> controllers) the kernel randomly hangs and what is worse,
> it has destroyed a filesystem in such a way that even fsck
> (from a rescue cd with an 2.6.29 kernel) hangs.
> I had to make a pristine filesystem on that partition.
> 
> There are some reports on the kernel mailing list and the
> kernel bug tracker which talk about similar problems
> on some hardware.
> 
> If some has more news (e.g. on how to fix that)
> I'd be very interested.
> Thanks,
> Helmut.
> 
-- 
William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING : 2.6.30 kernel hangs and destroys filesystems on old hardware

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 05:48:59PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote
> Was there any oops evident (in dmesg) and reiserfs involved? This is
> whats biting me at the moment on 2 systems with 2.6.29/30.

  No problems here so far.  Booted into 2.6.29-r5 just a few minutes
ago...

waltdnes@d530 ~ $ uname -a
Linux d530 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 10 23:46:49 EDT 2009 i686
Genuine Intel(R) CPU 2140 @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux


waltdnes@d530 ~ $ dmesg | grep -i reiser
ReiserFS: sda7: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda7: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda7: journal params: device sda7, size 8192, journal first
block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda7: checking transaction log (sda7)
ReiserFS: sda7: Using r5 hash to sort names


waltdnes@d530 ~ $ dmesg | grep -i oops

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>