Bug 119212

Summary: (SCSI CCISS)Process crash during "engage scsi" for HP Smart Array i5
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Fred Zwarts <zwarts>
Component: kernelAssignee: Dave Jones <davej>
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Description Fred Zwarts 2004-03-26 14:14:54 UTC
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Description of problem:
We have a Proliant DL380 G3 server system, which has a HP Smart Array 
i5 disk controller. For backup purposes we have a SCSI tape drive 
attached to this system. In order to enable the use of the SCSI port 
the command

echo "engage scsi" >/proc/driver/cciss/cciss0

is needed. (This worked with RedHat 8.0 and Fedore core 1.)

When we try this with Fedore core 2 test 1, the bash process crashes 
and a new login prompt appears. After loging in again, the command

more /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0

does show a sequential access device, but the tape drive is still not 
accessible. Retrying the "engage scsi" command returns a message that 
the scsi subsystem is already engaged.

So, we are not able to perform backups.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Log in as root.

2. execute the command
echo "engage scsi" >/proc/driver/cciss/cciss0



    

Actual Results:  The (bash) process crashes.

Expected Results:  The tape drive being accessible. E.g.,
mt -f /dev/st0 status
should return a success status instead of an error status.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2004-03-29 09:09:42 UTC
is there an oops of some sort in dmesg output? if so can you attach
that to this bug ?

Comment 2 Fred Zwarts 2004-03-29 09:28:03 UTC
dmesg does not contain any information, but I found something in
messages. I'll add it to the report.

Comment 3 Fred Zwarts 2004-03-29 09:29:57 UTC
Created attachment 98918 [details]
Extract from /var/log/messages

This is the extract from /var/log/messages I mentioned a few minutes ago.

Comment 4 Dave Jones 2004-12-08 05:50:13 UTC
any improvement with the 2.6.9 update kernel ?

Comment 5 Dave Jones 2005-04-16 06:14:36 UTC
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be
provided by Red Hat.  The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel
updates for security problems only.

If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please
try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the
product version accordingly.

Thank you.