Re: *sigh* Please give me something...

Jeremy Hansen (jeremy@iuinc.com)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:08:41 -0500 (EST)


Thank you very much for replying Alan.

> knfsd and with raid patches appears to be a combination that doesnt play
> together.

Perfect. I at least glad to hear something :-) Will going back to
userland nfs help the situation. That was basically my next step in
things to try.

> > working on them. I have no idea why 2.2 was ever released as stable and
> > at the same time I'm kicking myself in the ass for jumping into things so
> > quickly, but it's too late for that. Sometimes there's an oops or

2.2.0 had the same behavior. The box was never used with 2.0.36 and the
reason being support for the Adaptec 2940 U2W cards. At the time, it
seemed at if the U2W was not supported by the driver in 2.0.36. Was I
wrong? Plus I fear changes in raid may make things rather difficult to
move back. This is unfortunately a production level machine. Downtime to
backup, wipe out the partition and rebuild would well, hurt.

> 2.2.0 is stable, for most people. For example the only crashes on my
> 2.2.x boxes have been either new stuff I was trying at the time or repeating
> someone elses recipe. Is the box stable with 2.0.36 ?

Next time it dies I will do this and get a copy and send it to the list.
Is there any way to anticipate a failure, or something to watch that will
tell me something is wrong?

I appreciate this.

Thanks
-jeremy

> Ok that means it died in kernel space with interrupts enabled. So what does
> the magic sysreq key and right-alt-scrolllock and friends say your box
> was doing.
>
> Alan

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