Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 480827
[RHEL4.8][Kernel] System fails to boot with a qla2300 adapter
Last modified: 2009-04-09 09:37:01 EDT
Description of problem: While running the kernel tests. System ibm-js20-02.lab.bos.redhat.com failed to boot the updated kernel. 2.6.9-78.29.EL Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.9-78.29.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reserve ibm-js20-02.lab.bos.redhat.com from RHTS 2. Install the 2.6.9-78.29.EL kernel 3. Reboot Actual results: Checking filesystems Checking all file systems. [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /boot] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/md0 /dev/md0: clean, 29/32128 files, 25959/128384 blocks [ OK ] Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ] Enabling local filesystem quotas: [ OK ] Enabling swap space: [ OK ] INIT: Entering runlevel: 3 Entering non-interactive startup Starting monitoring for VG PPCVolGroup00: [ OK ] Checking for new hardware [ OK ] Starting pcmcia: [ OK ] Setting network parameters: [ OK ] Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth1: [ OK ] Starting system logger: [ OK ] Starting kernel logger: [ OK ] Starting portmap: [ OK ] Starting NFS statd: [ OK ] Starting mdmonitor: [ OK ] Starting RPC idmapd: [ OK ] Starting iprinit: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 12 Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 1, type 0 Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0, type 12 Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 1, type 0 Expected results: This should boot properly Additional info: The problem start with 2.6.9-78.29. The 2.6.9-78.28 works properly. Changelog: * Wed Jan 14 2009 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> [2.6.9-78.29] -qla4xxx: correct version number to 5.01.03.00.04.08-d (Marcus Barrow) [479862] -fix exit_itimers vs posix_timer_event ab-ba deadlock (Oleg Nesterov) [472864] -qla2xxx: firmware update to 4.06.01 for 8GB/s adapters (Marcus Barrow) [454839] -qla2xxx: firmware update to version 4.06.01 for 4GB/s adapters (Marcus Barrow) [454839] -qla2xxx: update to version 8.02.09.00.04.08-d (Marcus Barrow) [479094] -fix perfctr watchdog build warning (Aristeu Rozanski) [460920] -qla4xxx: code cleanups and removed dead code (Marcus Barrow) [477280] -qla4xxx: fix a driver timeout problem (Marcus Barrow) [477280] -qla4xxx: initialization fixes (Marcus Barrow) [477280] -qla4xxx: fixed hang during driver unload (Marcus Barrow) [477280] -qla4xxx: error recovery fixes (Marcus Barrow) [477280] -qla4xxx: dynamic ddb changes (Marcus Barrow) [477280] -e1000e: update to upstream version 0.3.3.3-k6 (Andy Gospodarek) [452287] -tsc: correct computed offset in mark_offset_tsc_hpet (Brian Maly) [451827] -dm snapshot: fix primary_pe race (Mikulas Patocka) [476461] -qla2xxx: more fix flash for isp25xx and scheduling (Marcus Barrow) [476704] -qla2xxx: correct flash write protect handling (Marcus Barrow) [476704] -qla2xxx: fix flash for isp25xx and sst flash (Marcus Barrow) [476704] -aio: fix race in aio_complete that leads to a process hang (Jeff Moyer) [456686] -autofs4: correct offset mount expire check (Ian Kent) [475715] -autofs4: cleanup autofs mount type usage (Ian Kent) [475715] -fix rmmod ohci_hcd (Pete Zaitcev) [455843 471560] -sctp: fix sctp premature recieve queue backup (Neil Horman) [467273] -acpi: fix empty proc acpi dsdt on hp ia64 systems (Prarit Bhargava) [455253] -power6: secondary cpu startup delay fix (Brad Peters) [439258]
I will work with Jeff Burke to get access to the logs and or system having this issue tomorrow. I did install the 2.6.9-79 kernel on my x86_64 system and have not been having any trouble with it. I have performed several terabytes of I/O without any errors. If the problem is related to only booting from SAN, I don't know yet if that is the case, then I will need some help because I don't know much about those types of issues. It could have to do with order of loading modules or module configurations of some type...
I have gone back and retested this with RHEL4-U8-re20090408.0 the kernel version is 2.6.9-87.EL. it appears to be fixed. http://rhts.redhat.com/cgi-bin/rhts/jobs.cgi?id=53973