Bug 120951
| Summary: | feature request: include smartctl in rescue system | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani> |
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | ballen |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-22 19:24:36 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Hi Michael, I support your idea of having smartctl as part of the rescue system. Note: running self-tests (in non-captive mode) should not lead to ide timeouts. There has been some lkml traffic about this recently; please see this URL for the thread: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=1yuPG-36O-9%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dsmartctl%2Bide%2Bdriver%2Btimeout%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26scoring%3Dd%26selm%3D1yuPG-36O-9%2540gated-at.bofh.it%26rnum%3D2 I'd be interested to know your kernel version and what type of disk you have. Also, does smartctl -a reveal any signs of problems with the disk? Perhaps you could attach output of smartctl for one of the disks that timed out, and a snippet of syslog as well. Thanks, Bruce Allen This is already done. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 Description of problem: Please include smartctl in the rescue system. Quoting from the man page: smartctl controls the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technolgy (SMART) system built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 drives. Reason for inclusion: smartctl is a nice tool to tell a HD to do some self checks. This is usefull if somebody wants to check if the HD is starting to fail. Running the SMART selftest while the systems has has the HD mounted can lead (happened to myself) to IDE timeouts and bus resets and a crashed machine. Using smartctl from the rescue system with the HD unmounted would be a nice way to bypass the above problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the rescue system 2. 3. Additional info: smartctl is included in the kernel-utils rpm