Description of problem: This is beeing seen on my HP Integrity servers. It may not be ia64 specific but that is all I have to test on right now. Note that this blocks NFS installations. This was originally seen during installation however I am able to reproduce the root of the problem on a running system where I have installed the appropriate kernel. simply trying to cat a large file that is mounted via nfs can reproduce this: # ls -l stage2.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93577216 Sep 1 14:22 stage2.img # cat stage2.img > /dev/null cat: stage2.img: Input/output error smaller files seem OK: # ls -l boot.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28606464 Sep 1 14:30 boot.img # cat boot.img > /dev/null (no error seen) We ran into this when doing intalls of rawhide and anaconda attempted to loopback mount the stage2.img file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.17-1.2608.fc6 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. mkdir /mnt/bigpapi 2. mount bigpapi.boston.redhat.com:/vol/engineering/redhat /mnt/bigpapi 3. cat /mnt/bigpapi/nightly/rawhide-20060901/development/ia64/os/images/stage2.img > /dev/null Actual results: cat: stage2.img: Input/output error Expected results: should get no error Additional info:
Possibly related to some of the other installation weirdness we're seeing?
I partly agree with prarit that this might be related to bug 204638 where we were seenig random panics during NFS installs. However, this particular aspect of the bug just started with today's (0901) build and is 100% reproducable. The other problems were fairly random and I didn't hit them 100% of the time.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 204859 ***