[gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

[gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

[Pandu Poluan]

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Just wondering if any of you guys experienced this lately:

System hangs when creating a brand-new ReiserFS on a new partition.

I've tried using the latest gentoo minimal CD, or the latest
SystemRescueCD, both exhibited the same.

I'm on an HP DL585 G7 box, by the way, so it's using an AMD CPU.

I'd appreciate any suggestions. My Google-fu all expose only old threads.

Rgds,
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Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

[Michael Hampicke]

Am 25.04.2013 17:25, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
> Just wondering if any of you guys experienced this lately:
> 
> System hangs when creating a brand-new ReiserFS on a new partition.
> 
> I've tried using the latest gentoo minimal CD, or the latest
> SystemRescueCD, both exhibited the same.
> 
> I'm on an HP DL585 G7 box, by the way, so it's using an AMD CPU.
> 
> I'd appreciate any suggestions. My Google-fu all expose only old 
> threads.

Are there any error/warnings in dmes or the logs?

Maybe the disk is toast? Can you create other file systems?

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

[Pandu Poluan]

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On Apr 25, 2013 10:37 PM, "Michael Hampicke" <mh@hadt.biz> wrote:
>
> Am 25.04.2013 17:25, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
>
>> Just wondering if any of you guys experienced this lately:
>>
>> System hangs when creating a brand-new ReiserFS on a new partition.
>>
>> I've tried using the latest gentoo minimal CD, or the latest
>> SystemRescueCD, both exhibited the same.
>>
>> I'm on an HP DL585 G7 box, by the way, so it's using an AMD CPU.
>>
>> I'd appreciate any suggestions. My Google-fu all expose only old threads.
>
>
> Are there any error/warnings in dmes or the logs?
>
> Maybe the disk is toast? Can you create other file systems?
>

Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight.

I can create an ext4 fs on a different partition, and since the 'disk' is
actually a RAID array, if the array is going south, I should see the same
problem with ext4, right?

Rgds,
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Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

[J. Roeleveld]

On Thu, April 25, 2013 18:08, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2013 10:37 PM, "Michael Hampicke" <mh@hadt.biz> wrote:
>>
>> Am 25.04.2013 17:25, schrieb Pandu Poluan:
>>
>>> Just wondering if any of you guys experienced this lately:
>>>
>>> System hangs when creating a brand-new ReiserFS on a new partition.
>>>
>>> I've tried using the latest gentoo minimal CD, or the latest
>>> SystemRescueCD, both exhibited the same.
>>>
>>> I'm on an HP DL585 G7 box, by the way, so it's using an AMD CPU.
>>>
>>> I'd appreciate any suggestions. My Google-fu all expose only old
>>> threads.
>>
>>
>> Are there any error/warnings in dmes or the logs?
>>
>> Maybe the disk is toast? Can you create other file systems?
>>
>
> Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight.

Does it lock every time you try?
Or did you only try once?

> I can create an ext4 fs on a different partition,

Does it work on the SAME partition? Eg. having it touch the same physical
parts of the same physical disk?

> and since the 'disk' is
> actually a RAID array, if the array is going south, I should see the same
> problem with ext4, right?

Not necessarily, a bad part on 1 disk will also mean a bad part on the
raid-array. The array should be able to recover though.

Is this hardware raid? Or software?
And what type of disks are you using?

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Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

[Michael Hampicke]

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Am 25.04.2013 18:08, schrieb Pandu Poluan:

>>
>>
>> Are there any error/warnings in dmes or the logs?
>>
>> Maybe the disk is toast? Can you create other file systems?
>>
> 
> Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight.
> 
> I can create an ext4 fs on a different partition, and since the 'disk' is
> actually a RAID array, if the array is going south, I should see the same
> problem with ext4, right?
> 

That was my guess, that if it is indeed a hardware error, you would get
the same error when trying to create a different fs on the same partition.

A total system lock is strange. Do you have to physically reset the
machine, or does SysRq Key still work?

I'm still guessing that it is a hardware related problem.


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Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

[Mark David Dumlao]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight.
>
> I can create an ext4 fs on a different partition, and since the 'disk' is
> actually a RAID array, if the array is going south, I should see the same
> problem with ext4, right?

I am guessing that mkreiserfs happens to touch parts of the disk that
mke2fs doesn't, and that the system hangs because the disk becomes
unresponsive. I will predict that mkntfs, which by default zeroes out
the partition, will fail similarly?
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Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

[Pandu Poluan]

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On Apr 26, 2013 9:46 AM, "Mark David Dumlao" <madumlao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> > Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight.
> >
> > I can create an ext4 fs on a different partition, and since the 'disk'
is
> > actually a RAID array, if the array is going south, I should see the
same
> > problem with ext4, right?
>
> I am guessing that mkreiserfs happens to touch parts of the disk that
> mke2fs doesn't, and that the system hangs because the disk becomes
> unresponsive. I will predict that mkntfs, which by default zeroes out
> the partition, will fail similarly?
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Okay, everybody, thanks for all the input!

Since this is a server in my office, I couldn't test until I arrive in my
office.

I'm now (just) arrived in my office, and I will try the following:

1. Create Reiserfs on a different partition, and

2. Create a different fs on the problematic partition.

I'll report back with what happened.

Rgds,
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Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.reiserfs hangs system?

[Pandu Poluan]

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On Apr 26, 2013 10:31 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
>
>
> On Apr 26, 2013 9:46 AM, "Mark David Dumlao" <madumlao@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
wrote:
> > > Can't get to see dmesg, the system locked up tight.
> > >
> > > I can create an ext4 fs on a different partition, and since the
'disk' is
> > > actually a RAID array, if the array is going south, I should see the
same
> > > problem with ext4, right?
> >
> > I am guessing that mkreiserfs happens to touch parts of the disk that
> > mke2fs doesn't, and that the system hangs because the disk becomes
> > unresponsive. I will predict that mkntfs, which by default zeroes out
> > the partition, will fail similarly?
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> >
>
> Okay, everybody, thanks for all the input!
>
> Since this is a server in my office, I couldn't test until I arrive in my
office.
>
> I'm now (just) arrived in my office, and I will try the following:
>
> 1. Create Reiserfs on a different partition, and
>
> 2. Create a different fs on the problematic partition.
>
> I'll report back with what happened.
>
> Rgds,
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A follow up:

A partition that had no problems at all with ext4 earlier...

... again got stuck during mkfs.reiserfs. The journal creation progress
reached 100%, then... nothing.

System stuck totally. After about 15 minutes, ssh session died. Console
session totally unresponsive.

I will retry using mkntfs.

Rgds,
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