Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 227931
host bus error
Last modified: 2013-07-02 22:32:08 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1 Description of problem: When booting with kernel 2.6.19 and higher kernels on a Vmware virtual machine, the following error appears in a dmesg output. ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x26) ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x4a data 8 in res 51/50:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x20 (host bus error) ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata2: EH complete This started happening after upgrading from 2.6.18 to 2.6.19 and continue to appear with each newer kernel version. This is a Fedora Rwhide fully patched version. IF i boot with 2.6.18 kernel this error message does not appear. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.20-1.2922.fc7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot with kernel 2.6.19 or higher 2. Open the terminal 3. type dmesg Actual Results: following output appears ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x26) ata2.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x4a data 8 in res 51/50:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x20 (host bus error) ata2.00: configured for UDMA/33 ata2: EH complete Expected Results: no error message. Additional info:
Created attachment 147711 [details] dmesg output showing error
The issue got resolved after I upgraded the vmware player from 1.0.4 to Version 2. version 2 (2.0.0build-45731). The latest kernel version is 2.6.21-1.3149.fc7 with which it is working fine. One issue I encountered after installation of vmware player 2.0, that it gives the following ,message. Error while opening the virtual machine. The virtual machine appears to be in use. Deleting the .lck file from the directory that contains the image resolved the issue.