Created attachment 1194741 [details] OOPS on the i686 VM after boot with the scratch kernel from bug #1370061 Description of problem: My i686 VM running on VMware ESX intermittently doesn't boot properly or hangs on reboot. Unfortunately, I don't have console access, so the only diagnostic I was able to capture was an OOPS in the journal. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.7.2-200 How reproducible: Sometimes. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot into this kernel or reboot with this kernel. 2. VM hangs. Actual results: VM hangs. Expected results: Kernel 4.6.7 work fine. Additional info:
Last time I had trouble with this VM was when Buslogic SCSI driver was modified. At that time, I asked the folks in charge of the host OS to switch my VM to LSI controller (mptbase/mptspi). I see there were some recent changes to the kernel in that part of the tree that are not present in 4.6.x. I cannot judge what those changes are, but it would be good to know if anyone else can replicate the issue by moving their VMware config to LSI hardware and rebooting into 4.7.2. Totally wild guess, of course...
Here is what I've done in conjunction with ESX admins: - VMware hardware was updated to version 8 - LSI SCSI controller was replaced with Paravirtual SCSI (i.e. mptbase/mptspi -> vmw_pvscsi) The VM was booted into 4.7.2-201 kernel twice thus far, once with fsck performed on boot. Everything seems OK for now. So, maybe it has something to do with LSI driver changes that are only present I. 4.7. Totally Wild guess, of course.
Unable to replicate this at all since I switched to pvscsi. Now, whether that is what actually contributed, I cannot really test. So, closing.