Description of Problem: I believe this was the cause of my kernel oops last friday.... ---- -> trash dasda by starting a dasdfmt on dasda and then aborting part way through. -> restart... ---- dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasda(94:0),0200@0x0:EXAMINE 24: No Record Found detected - fatal error Sense data: dasd(eckd):device 0200 on irq 0: I/O status report: dasd(eckd):in req: 0f87df00 CS: 0x40 DS: 0x0E dasd(eckd):Failing CCW: 0f87dfc8 dasd(eckd):Sense(hex) 0- 7: 00 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 dasd(eckd):Sense(hex) 8-15: 0f 40 08 00 00 00 00 00 dasd(eckd):Sense(hex) 16-23: 00 00 00 00 ff 00 0f 00 dasd(eckd):Sense(hex) 24-31: 00 00 4e a0 00 00 00 00 dasd(eckd):24 Byte: 0 MSG 0, no MSGb to SYSOP dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasda(94:0),0200@0x0:(EXAMINE) ERP chain report for req: 0f87df00 dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasda(94:0),0200@0x0:0f87df00: c5c3d2c4 00000000 0f87de00 0f87de00 dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasda(94:0),0200@0x0:0f87df10: 0f92b000 00000000 0f87dfa0 0 ... dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasda(94:0),0200@0x0:Channel program (complete): dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasda(94:0),0200@0x0:0f87dfa0: 63400010 0f87df70 47400010 0f87df80 ... dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasda(94:0),0200@0x0:Failed CCW (0f87dfc8) already logged dasd(eckd):/dev/dasda(94:0),0200@0x0:volume analysis returned fatal error ---- -> run loader -> select "Hard Disk" for install type and then "/dev/dasda": ---- loop: loaded (max 8 devices) specification exception: 0006 CPU: 0 Process loaderbin (pid: 46, stackpage=0F633000) Kernel PSW: 04082000 908011c6 Not tainted task: 0f632000 ksp: 0f6336f8 pt_regs: 0f633660 Kernel GPRS: 00000086 108011c4 0f8b21c8 0f5f9000 0f87df00 0f92b000 00000002 0f87ea20 00000001 00000002 00006799 0f8b21c8 0f8b21c8 9080eb0c 9081060a 0f6336f8 Kernel ACRS: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Kernel BackChain CallChain 0f6336f8 [<1080effc>] 0f633920 [<10801ec8>] 0f6339b8 [<108022d4>] 0f633a18 [<000d96d0>] 0f633a80 [<00025816>] 0f633af8 [<0004d474>] 0f633b68 [<0004fa66>] 0f633bd0 [<00083c56>] User process fault: interruption code 0x6 CPU: 1 Process sshd (pid: 43, stackpage=0F6DB000) User PSW: 070dc000 8040f66e Not tainted task: 0f6da000 ksp: 0f6dbd00 pt_regs: 0f6dbf68 User GPRS: 00453730 0043e160 00000000 0044be88 ---- Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Latest (RC2). How Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See steps above.
We need a correctly formatted dasda to work correctly. Florian La Roche
you shouldn't do that, Dave... you can always shoot yourself in the foot.
My only point was - is it still not possible to give a polite error message rather than explode? I do agree that its low priority.