From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; Q312461; T312461) Description of problem: After updating from kernel 2.4.7-10 to 2.4.9-31 on an Compaq Proliant ML370 with on-board RAID there seems to be a problem with EXT3. The kernel Crashes in kjounald. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.9-31 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Let the System run. 2. Time differs, but then it crashes. Last time it was after 2 Hours Additional info: The crash produces errors on the filesystem :( On the system the Compaq Insight Drivers version 5.30 are installed. I can give you a couple of screen shots of the Output on Screen. We are using a Compaq insight Board - here i can replay the screen output on the last error. The last time it listed Process kjournald and cmaidad (Compaq Insight) on crash. The time before it listed kjournald and swapper.
Created attachment 57224 [details] Screenshot 1 of 4 from the last Kernel Panic
Have you ever seen this without the "Compaq Insight Drivers" ever having been loaded on the machine since boot time?
It may be the kjournald process giving the oops, but the address of the faulting code is deep in the block device driver layer. This looks much more like a driver problem than a filesystem one.
I have some more infomation. You seems to bee right about the Drivers. I have disabled one of the processes of the Insight Drivers that showed up in the Screen Output : cmaidad Since Friday that Server did not crash anymore. Maybee it is the Smart Array Driver not working 100% with the Insight Driver :( The bad thing (for me) is that that process is monitoring the Array Controller (Raid 5) and that means I am not getting any errors wenn Harddisks fail :( I am not 100% sure,I have 8 ML370 and only tested this on one over the weekend. Today I and am going to expand this to 4 Maschines and watch it a couple of Days to see what happens. Thank you Christian Jacobsen
You could have a look at the kernel-utils package from the 7.3 release (it will just work on 7.2); it contains a monitoring app for some compaq controllers...
Hallo, you can use the NEW Insight Drivers 5.40 wich are now released ;) They seem to bee stable - have only tested 1 day :) Or disabling cmaidad on 5.30 solves the problem. Then you have no Surveilance of the Raid Adapter and the Harddisks. This is how to do it : ########################################################## /etc/rc.d/init.d/cmastor stop "vi /etc/rc.d/init.d/cmastor change : PNAMES="cmastorpeerd cmaidad cmafcad cmaided cmascsid" in : # PNAMES="cmastorpeerd cmaidad cmafcad cmaided cmascsid" PNAMES="cmastorpeerd cmafcad cmaided cmascsid" Then /etc/rc.d/init.d/cmastor start ##########################################################
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