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Bug 111911

Summary: avoid hang during initialization on I/O errors
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Ingolf Salm <salm>
Component: kernelAssignee: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 3.0CC: barryn, bjohnson, petrides, riel
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IBM patch for LTC4971 none

Description Ingolf Salm 2003-12-11 15:27:06 UTC 
Description of problem:

symptom: system hangs when initializing
problem: on i/O errors, a lock was not released
solution: release lock
Comment 1 Pete Zaitcev 2003-12-22 21:38:17 UTC 
How about attaching a patch or something... What errors, what lock?
Comment 2 Pete Zaitcev 2004-01-13 04:59:42 UTC 
My goodness. A little bit of creative searching and matching
discovered that
 a) LTCBZID 4971
 b) The fix is applicable to qeth
Comment 3 Pete Zaitcev 2004-01-13 05:08:31 UTC 
Created attachment 96925 [details]
IBM patch for LTC4971
Comment 4 Pete Zaitcev 2004-02-20 23:56:44 UTC 
Modified in 2.4.21-9.10.EL
Comment 5 John Flanagan 2004-05-12 01:07:58 UTC 
An errata 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 the 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/RHSA-2004-188.html