Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 97884
badblocks reports no partition header during RHR run, parted and badblocks say it's fine afterwards
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:53 EST
Description of problem: During a Red Hat Ready self-certification test on an Everest (HP rx5670) server, an error was reported in the FDISK (fixed disk) section -- in particular, "/dev/hdd does not contain a valid partition header". I got this error 5 times from badblocks (as expected, per the RHR certification requirements), yet at the end of the run I tried running both parted and badblocks on /dev/sdd and they report it's _fine_... (I did nothing to the disk drive to cause any change in behavior, not even rebooting). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # rpm -q kernel-smp e2fsprogs parted kernel-smp-2.4.18-e.31 e2fsprogs-1.26-1.72 parted-1.4.24-5ia64 How reproducible: not sure, only happened this one time AFAIK Steps to Reproduce: 1. RHR certification run on HP rx5670 4-way, 96GB RAM, 27 drives and a lot of separate I/O cards (list available upon request) Additional info: I'm copying Larry Troan on this because I'd really like to not have to re-run this certification test; it'll tie up the Everest for another 6 days and we need to test other, newer alpha-cuts from Red Hat on that system.
Looks like a 1-time thing, cannot reproduce; closing.