Bug 109639

Summary: Re-boot fails due to gdth driver crash. System crash on gdth driver read.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Daniel King <danielk>
Component: kernelAssignee: Doug Ledford <dledford>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 3.0CC: petrides, riel
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Description Daniel King 2003-11-10 15:46:49 UTC
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Description of problem:
# shutdown -r 0

all running services shutdown [ OK ]
...
Unmounting file systems: [ OK ]
Halting system...
md: Stopping all md devices.
flushing ide devices: hda hdc
GDT: Flushing all host drives.. Starting timer : 0 0

System becomes inactive

Type <ctrl - alt - delete> at console

md: Stopping all md devices.
flushing ide devices: hda hdc
GDT: Flushing all host drives.. Starting timer : 0 0

Type <ctrl - alt - delete> at console

System hangs/crashes. Response not possible.
Press Reset button to re-boot system.

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From a running server:
Attempt to read from driver at command prompt

# cat /proc/scsi/gdth/0
Starting Timer : 0 0

This console hangs.
Switch to new console and login.

# lsmod
usual modules listed along with gdth.

# mount
Console hangs.
Server hangs.
<ctrl - alt - delete> has no effect.
Press Reset button to re-boot system.


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. # shutdown -r 0
or
1. # cat /proc/scsi/gdth/0
    

Additional info:

System Hardware
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Tyan Tiger S2723GNN i7501 Dual Xeon 533FSB Mainboard
Dual Intel P4 Xeon 2.4GHZ 512K Cache 533FSB Processors
1Gb DDR RAM
40Gb IDE boot disk
ICP Vortex Disk Array Controller - GDT8523RZ. 1 RAID5 partition.

Comment 2 Doug Ledford 2003-11-10 23:56:18 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104520 ***

Comment 3 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:59:55 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.