Bug 458702
| Summary: | kdump initrd hangs waiting on cciss or md devices | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Doug Chapman <dchapman> | ||||||
| Component: | kexec-tools | Assignee: | Neil Horman <nhorman> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 5.3 | CC: | mgahagan, qcai | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2009-01-20 20:59:38 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. Created attachment 313995 [details]
updated patch to properly handle raid cases
In the process of looking at this we also found that for raid devices it does not add the /dev/sd* devices needed to critical_disks as it should. This is an updated patch that has the fix mentioned in the orignal comment and also fixes this raid case.
This has been tested on 3 different ia64 systems with these configs:
lvm on top of raid on scsi disks
raid on scsi disks
lvm on top of cciss disks
all appear to kdump properly and inspection of etc/critical_disks shows what is expected (the needed sd disks only).
fixed in -32.el5. Thanks! Neil, Thanks, I have verified that -32.el5 does indeed work nicely. - Doug An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0105.html |
Created attachment 313983 [details] patch to exclude md and cciss from critical_disks Description of problem: The recent changes to kdump mkdumprd to wait until the needed devices are in place before mounting the root filesystem hangs on md or cciss devices. This is due to how it parses the devices to be able to find them in sysfs. Since these devices are always there once the driver is loaded we don't have the race condition issue so the easiest is to just exclude them from etc/critical_disks. I am attaching a patch to mkdumprd that does that. Patch has been tested on systems with "md" and "cciss" disks. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kexec-tools-1.102pre-31 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: