Bug 71394 - kernel seemed to hang as result of device access error
Summary: kernel seemed to hang as result of device access error
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-13 00:00 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:45 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-12-17 02:58:12 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2002-08-13 00:00:35 UTC 
Description of Problem:

kernel seemed to hang with these last words in the /var/messages file.  Device is a software raid-1 device using 2 ide drives.

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Aug 12 02:58:34 de1 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Aug 12 02:58:34 de1 kernel: 09:01: rw=1, want=160079600, limit=160079552
Aug 12 02:58:35 de1 kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
Aug 12 02:58:35 de1 kernel: 09:01: rw=1, want=160079604, limit=160079552
 ( no further logging, assumed hung )

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Linux version 2.4.18-5bigmem (bhcompile.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 200007
31 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 SMP Mon Jun 10 15:08:50 EDT 2002

raidtools-1.00.2-1.3

How Reproducible:

Sorry, don't know how to reproduce the access error.

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System was originally RH 7.1, then upgraded to RH7.3 using installer, then patched through 05 Aug 2002.
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2002-08-14 12:15:19 UTC 
any chance of attaching dmesg ?
(it still looks weird, dmesg will give at least some hw info)
Comment 2 Dave Jones 2003-12-17 02:58:12 UTC 
a year and a half later, no response. closing.
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