Bug 599006

Summary:	Cannot boot into F13 kernel with isw raid1
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Thomas Moschny <thomas.moschny>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	13	CC:	anton, dougsland, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint
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Description Thomas Moschny 2010-06-02 14:07:34 UTC

Description of problem:

This machine (Dell Precision WorkStation 390) with Intel Raid has been updated from F12 to F13 via yum, without major problems. However, booting the F13 kernel doesn't work. Dracut detects and assembles the raid1, but hangs forever when trying to mount the root partition.

After 120 seconds a kernel stacktrace is presented:

INFO: task mount:510 blocked for more than 120 seconds.

One of the topmost functions in the trace is md_write_start.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.33.5-112.fc13.x86_64
dracut-005-3.fc13.noarch
dmraid-1.0.0.rc16-12.fc13.x86_64
mdadm-3.1.2-10.fc13.x86_64

The initramfs has been regenerated using "dracut -f" at least once since the update.

Meanwhile the system can be used using the F12 kernel/initrd still present on disk.

I can try to make and attach screenshots of the stack traces if that helps in the next days.

Comment 1 Thomas Moschny 2010-06-22 09:53:41 UTC

Problem remains with kernel-2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64.

Comment 2 Thomas Moschny 2010-07-21 08:29:53 UTC

With kernel-2.6.33.6-147.fc13.x86_64, still doesn't work.

Any suggestions, what information is needed to get this fixed, or which workarounds I could try?

Comment 3 Chuck Ebbert 2010-07-21 12:33:08 UTC

Please post the entire stack trace.

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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2011-06-27 17:20:50 UTC

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