Description of problem: I run a slave MySQL-server-4.1.18, from mysql.com, with statically linked glibc. Under kernel-smp 2096, it works fine. Under kernel-smp 2107, the slave does not work; a "netstat" shows that a socket to the master mysql server was created, but data is waiting for MySQL to read it, and never being read. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2107_FC5 How reproducible: Every time (I made many attempts to get MySQL working). Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install kernel 2107. 2. Start mysql as a slave database. Actual results: Data waits to be read by the slave ("netstat --tcp" shows inbound data not being read). Slave database is not kept up to date. Connecting to database and examining database status indicates that the slave is waiting for data from the master. Expected results: Slave should read data on inbound network socket. Additional info: Swiched back to kernel 2096 and everything went back to normal. I see bug 190543 which looks similar, except the applications having trouble are nfs and ypbind. As an added note, the socket to the master isn't directly out the network - it actually goes through an SSL tunnel first, so the connection is: Master database --> (over internet) --> xinetd-spawned SSL tunner --> slave database This may or may not be significant, I'm not sure.
does booting with pci=nomsi make this go away?
Actually, that option is also broken in this kernel (sigh). 2108, available from http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC5/ has this disabled by default. Give that a try ?
I did try that option. I rebooted three times; twice with pci=nomsi, once without. Surprisingly, one time with pci=nomsi, mysql *did* start pulling in data, and in fact worked fine! The other two times it was stuck and didn't pull in any data, as before. Maybe it was a coincidence, it is also possible that I accidentally ran the wrong kernel the time it worked, but I was pretty careful. I'll try 2108 another day, it is getting late and there's work I have to do. Another point: Connecting to mysql via named pipe works fine every time. Connecting via java, which always uses network sockets, fails when 2107 is running; the connection is made, but the server never answers messages sent. Wouldn't pci=nomsi disable an option on the PCI bus? It would surprise me if that helps, since the data is sitting in the network buffer I don't see how PCI bus properties can stop it from getting to the application, but if you think it is worthwhile I'll try 2108 all the same once I have time to do so.