Bug 123328

Summary:	system hangs with aic7xxx
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ivan S. Anisimov <ivansa>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	9	CC:	riel
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Description Ivan S. Anisimov 2004-05-17 07:18:59 UTC

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Description of problem:
An HP proliant dual xeon 2.4G with Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI 
HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.8, 3.2TB raid running samba Version 2.2.8a hangs 
unexpectedly with no messages in syslog or console. top shows 
increasing load average, all i/o with raid is locked out and system 
ignores attempts to reboot (ps showing 'shutdown -r' but nothing's 
actually happening). 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Linux main 2.4.20-8custom #9 SMP Thu Nov 6 15:12:40 MSK 2003 i686 
i686 i386 GNU/Linux

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Run samba
2.Leave system serving a couple of request for a long time (5-48 
hours)
3.
   

Actual Results:  top shows increasing load average with no processes 
occupying cpu, all i/o with raid is locked, samba fails to serve 
requests

Expected Results:  adequate load average, working samba

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2004-05-17 11:00:26 UTC

Try the errata kernel. If that doesn't help, you're out of luck
I'm afraid, as Red Hat Linux 9 reached End of life at the end of April
2004.