Bug 975732

Summary: EIO on stdout for large make jobs
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Julian Stecklina <js>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Fixed In Version: kernel-3.9.8-300.fc19 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-07-01 01:39:49 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Julian Stecklina 2013-06-19 08:47:30 UTC 
Created attachment 762792 [details]
strace output for offending make process

Description of problem:

In a large production build system, make and sometimes bash etc., fail, because they get EIO from a write to stdout. Stdout is not redirected and goes to a pty (urxvt). We first thought it to be a file system issue, but using tmpfs or ext4 doesn't make a difference.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.9.5-301.fc19.x86_64
glibc-2.17-4.fc19.x86_64
make-3.82-15.fc19.x86_64

This bug is very hard to reproduce. Sometimes it hits a couple of times in a row, but most of the time it works without problems. In order to reproduce this, I had to run our full build over 200 times. Usually it is spotted by our buildbot. The whole 3.9 series seems to affected. Downgrading to 3.4 fixed the issue for us.

Actual results:
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/julian/src/l4-src/l4/pkg/drivers-frst/uart/src'
make[5]: write error
make[4]: *** [src] Error 1

write(1, ...) returns -1 with errno = EIO.

Expected results:
write to stdout succeeds. make completes.

Additional info:

It seems others have hit this problem as well:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sage-devel/2XdLbWhtmKM
Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2013-06-19 12:43:17 UTC 
This is likely solved with https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git/commit/?h=tty-linus&id=7c61c3d8f44d5d822f758754287af644307b4af9
Comment 2 Julian Stecklina 2013-06-24 13:03:38 UTC 
This patch is included in 3.10-rc7, so it will be fixed with 3.10.
Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2013-06-24 13:24:39 UTC 
It's CC'd to stable, so it should also make the next 3.9 stable update.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2013-06-27 22:15:17 UTC 
kernel-3.9.8-300.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/kernel-3.9.8-300.fc19
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-06-29 15:24:33 UTC 
Package kernel-3.9.8-300.fc19:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing kernel-3.9.8-300.fc19'
as soon as you are able to, then reboot.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-11901/kernel-3.9.8-300.fc19
then log in and leave karma (feedback).
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2013-07-01 01:39:49 UTC 
kernel-3.9.8-300.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.