Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 26.12.2012 02:11, schrieb fe...@crowfix.com: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 01:11:04PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: The best way to find out what's wrong is to bisect the kernel, i.e. finding the exact commit that caused the issue to appear. http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel_git-bisect Got

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-26 Thread felix
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:56:39PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: `git tag` should give you a list of version numbers. The tag you are searching for is v3.7. Thanks -- power went out, standby generator kicked in and woke me up at 0430, and I woke realizing that. Bisect is happy. My git-fu is

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 23.12.2012 20:23, schrieb fe...@crowfix.com: I have since had some time to explore this and find it related to the kernel; 3.6.10 works fine, while 3.7.1 fails. If I reset during the 3.7.1 boot while it is spewing its error messages, but before the kernel ultimately panics, I can reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 08:53:33AM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:07:04AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: emerge -av app-text/wgetpaste wgetpaste /path/to/3.6/.config /path/to/3.7/.config 3.6.10 .config -- http://bpaste.net/show/66307/ 3.7.1 .config --

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread Todd Goodman
* Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net [121225 07:16]: Am 23.12.2012 20:23, schrieb fe...@crowfix.com: I have since had some time to explore this and find it related to the kernel; 3.6.10 works fine, while 3.7.1 fails. If I reset during the 3.7.1 boot while it is spewing its error

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 08:56:56AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: We're on the road, getting ready to pack, and not in a good position to do much on this issue atm. Nevertheless, a most unexpected Christmas present! In progress, and thank you. My dilemna certainly isn't urgent, since 3.6.10 still

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 10:58:54AM -0500, Todd Goodman wrote: A me too on the problem the original poster is seeing. I too am seeing this on a server I have. 3.7.0 and 3.7.1 both don't work but 3.6.10 works fine. I'm using the sata_mv driver with a SuperMicro (two actually) cards with

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 08:56:56AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: I would suggest you run lspci -nnk with your running 3.6.10 kernel and save that output. Then go into the kernel source directory for 3.7.1, run make mrproper then make defconfig and enable all the kernel drivers listed in the lspci

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 08:56:56AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: I would suggest you run lspci -nnk with your running 3.6.10 kernel and save that output. Then go into the kernel source directory for 3.7.1, run make mrproper then make defconfig and enable all the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 04:20:23PM -0600, Dale wrote: This is what I would try: ... Maybe that will help. At least get you to a console. That alone makes fixing something else easier. Checked all that -- it boots into the same ATA driver failures as the bloated version of the kernel.

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 1:23 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Google does not enlighten me. One suggestion was change the SATA cable, but this is definitely a change from 3.6.10 to 3.7.1. I can't find where I read it, but just yesterday I was reading a somewhat recent LKML post which mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread Dale
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 04:20:23PM -0600, Dale wrote: This is what I would try: ... Maybe that will help. At least get you to a console. That alone makes fixing something else easier. Checked all that -- it boots into the same ATA driver failures as the bloated

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 06:03:12PM -0600, Dale wrote: Is it possible that you have two SATA drivers enabled and the two conflict each other? I read, I think on this list, where someone had to disable one driver for the correct driver to work. You may want to go here:

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 01:11:04PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: The best way to find out what's wrong is to bisect the kernel, i.e. finding the exact commit that caused the issue to appear. http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel_git-bisect Got the repository cloned: # git clone

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:23:35AM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: snip, whack, d200d, cough, spit Puhleeeze don't put such long stuff in an email. Have you heard of attachments? pastebins? Your dropbox postings lost me after reading: Please enable browser-cookies to use the Dropbox website. --

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread felix
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 08:35:20AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: Puhleeeze don't put such long stuff in an email. Have you heard of attachments? pastebins? I was under the impression that gentoo strips attachments. At any rate, I summarized as much as possible and only put the the full logs at

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread Dale
fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 08:35:20AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: Puhleeeze don't put such long stuff in an email. Have you heard of attachments? pastebins? I was under the impression that gentoo strips attachments. At any rate, I summarized as much as possible and only

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread Bruce Hill
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 07:41:10AM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I was under the impression that gentoo strips attachments. At any rate, I summarized as much as possible and only put the the full logs at the end. As for the cookies, shrug so many sites require cookies and/or javascript

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread felix
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:07:04AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: Would you consider our own pastebin from portage? Sure, in progress. I'll have to read up on this pastebin stuff. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread felix
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:07:04AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: emerge -av app-text/wgetpaste wgetpaste /path/to/3.6/.config /path/to/3.7/.config 3.6.10 .config -- http://bpaste.net/show/66307/ 3.7.1 .config -- http://bpaste.net/show/66309/ Also can you dmesg | wgetpaste and note the uname

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread felix
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 07:41:10AM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I was under the impression that gentoo strips attachments. At any rate, I summarized as much as possible and only put the the full logs at the end. Looks like the attachments got thru. I will try to remember that. --

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:23:35AM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: snip, whack, d200d, cough, spit Puhleeeze don't put such long stuff in an email. Have you heard of attachments? pastebins? Felix,

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:23:35AM -0800, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: snip, whack, d200d, cough, spit Puhleeeze don't put such long stuff

[gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-23 Thread felix
A few weeks ago I had a scare when a reboot paniced the kernel with a complaint that it could not find the root device (/dev/sde), and further reboots couldn't even see the USB keyboard. Leavng the system powered off overnight fixed the problem and the system has been working fine ever since.