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This specific system hangs at udev during a boot to kdump kernel. * ProLiant DL585 G5 (4 CPUs x Quad = 16 CPUs booted) - Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8354 - system name: paumaccg101a, RHEL5.2 with 2.6.18-92.el5 (x86_64) This only happens when the qla driver is loaded. The test is symply sysrq to force crash. The kdump kernel will load, but then hangs later during udev. It should write out the core and then reboot. Everything works when udev is disabled. We thought we might be hitting https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460301, but we have eliminated that.
Additional info: We have tested this on our hardware, but could not reproduce this..but we don't have the same storage config. The customer has had a couple different machines (same model) with the issue.
Have you run udev in debug mode and logged it via a serial console? That would provide a lot more valuable info on what happens. Thanks & regards, Phil
We collected udev debug from serial, but I didn't see anything that stood out and the "hang" didn't appear to happen at a consistent location. I'm been informed of the following tests. 1./ Install From Scratch of RH5.4 (with the customer's Configuration) ==> Crash tests: OK 2./ Update from RH5.2 (customer Configuration) a) Kernel update (2.6.18-164) ==> Crash tests : Not OK (same problem) Updating also the following RPMs : - RPM "trouser" (not installed in RH5.2 or RH5.4 From Scratch : needed to update the kernel ? ) - RPM "keyutils (update) - RPM " ecryptfs" (update) - RPM "KERNEL" b) Update of Package KEXEC (RHEL 5.4) ==> Crash tests : OK
Created attachment 364460 [details] log of udev hang
Created attachment 364462 [details] log of udev hang Attached a couple logs of udev debug output