[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2011-01-23 Thread hoover
I have experienced a similar bug removing largish video files (about 4GB or so) from an internal SATA drive formatted with an xfs filesystem. Sometimes when doing an rm -rf on a directory on that file system, the rm will hang and remain pegged at 100% cpu usage. As opposed to other posters in

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2011-01-23 Thread reini
Since this report is about ext4 and you're having problems with xfs, you really should open a separate report... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 Title: Soft lockups (freezes)

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2010-01-07 Thread ViPeRaY
It seems like the fix has been released for this but I am still having this problem. I can copy large files (around 15-20 gig) to a NTFS hard drive and there is no problem. However when I try to copy same files to an internal hard drive which uses ext4, the system freezes. I am using Karmic with

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2010-01-07 Thread enb
However when I try to copy same files to an internal hard drive which uses ext4, the system freezes. This would be a different bug, as this bug only occurs when removing files. My question is, how do I get the fix? It looks like the latest karmic kernel release is 2.6.31-17. You might want to

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-10-16 Thread Rene
Since I upgraded to Linux rgm 2.6.28-15-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Wed Sep 9 10:49:34 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/ no freeze when deleting big files together ( 1GB) no BUG: soft locking - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [uic: 5356] mean 2 PC had the problem, 2PC solved !!! Previously I had to switch to mainline kernel

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-10-16 Thread Andrius Štikonas
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) Status: Confirmed = Fix Released -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-10-04 Thread Andrew Berry
It seems to me that this is fixed in the patches committed from #418197. Can anyone else confirm? I was able to delete around 2.6 million links and files in a single rm -rf, which would previously cause a lockup in a minute or two. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-10-04 Thread Andrew Berry
Link since comments don't autolink to bug numbers: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/418197 -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-09-10 Thread Logicwax
thanks taigolp! I can confirm as well that mounting my native ext4 with sync,barrier=1 option in my fstab solves the problem on Jaunty. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-09-10 Thread Logicwax
actually I'm sorry, I take that back. I was trying to rm -rf over 1.3TB of data, composed of over 17,000 sub directories each a dozen or so files located inside. I too had complete system lock-up when I would try deleting them (moving and copying was fine). I tried to move the directories

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-09-08 Thread tiagolp
mounting the ext4 filesystem with the mount options sync,barrier=1 seems to solve the problem on my case (2.6.28-15-generic). -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-09-04 Thread Saïvann Carignan
No, Jaunty is still supported (it's still the latest release) and the bug is still confirmed, therefore closing it would be inappropriate. It would also don't help developers to track the bug and work on it later. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-09-04 Thread papukaija
Should we close this bug for Jaunty as no one is working for it (see comment 256) ? -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-09-01 Thread Andrew Berry
Is there a list somewhere of notable patches / features which Canonical has integrated into their kernel? I'd like to switch to a mainline kernel to avoid this bug (which is still affecting me), but want to be sure I'm not missing anything critical which Canonical has changed. -- Soft lockups

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-08-30 Thread Theodore Ts'o
At this point, it seems pretty clear to me that no one is really working on this for Jaunty; if you must use Januty, the only thing I can suggest is to use a mainline kernel --- any mainline kernel, whether it is 2.6.28, 2.6.29, or 2.6.30 will work fine. The problem seems to be in Canonical's

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-08-29 Thread Santiago Garcia Pimentel R.G.
Im running a fully updated Jaunty and I am still experiencing lockups when deleting large files/directories. Any idea of when will have a fix release for jaunty? -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-08-25 Thread Phil Norbeck
I can reproduce this every single time when deleting large files from ext3 partitions as well as ext4. I have too noticed that it is easier to reproduce when the working partition is low on free space. In my case though when reviewing the log files each soft lockup instance has lines in common

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-08-17 Thread Steve Langasek
** Tags added: verification-failed ** Tags removed: verification-needed -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-08-17 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.28-15.48 --- linux (2.6.28-15.48) jaunty-proposed; urgency=low [ Andy Whitcroft ] * SAUCE: pnp: add PNP resource range checking function - LP: #349314 * SAUCE: i915: enable MCHBAR if needed - LP: #349314 [ Brad Figg ]

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-08-17 Thread Steve Langasek
verification failed, but the patch doesn't appear to have introduced regressions, so the updated kernel has been published to jaunty-updates. Resetting for the next pass. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) Status: Fix Released = Confirmed ** Tags removed: verification-failed -- Soft

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-08-16 Thread Arnaud Faucher
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) Status: Fix Committed = Confirmed -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-08-11 Thread Keith Moyer
I have the -14 kernel, and just hit this bug again last night (actually caused me to lose a fair amount of data). Are people still looking into this? By most accounts, the fix committed doesn't fix the problem. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-08-11 Thread Borph
@getaceres: Which kernel version are you using exactly? Mine is 2.6.29-020629-generic, manually installed. But I would prefer to have a system with standard components. But I don't want to risk loosing my data again. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-08-11 Thread TiGR
I've tried using latest kernel from proposed (2.6.28-15) but I had two lockups, though they might be not that easy provoking. So, the bug is not fixed, I am back on 2.6.29-02062906 -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-08-11 Thread Valeryan_24
Since the last updates, it worked better : I could suppress definitively files in Nautilus without crashing. But one time doing this I got a freeze, and 2 times also during copy / cut - paste of files (around 9 Gb), on a partition with a lot of space available for the first one. SInce yesterday,

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-29 Thread Wei-Yee Chan
This sounds similar to a problem that I experienced yesterday. I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 9.04 recently and formatted every partition to ext4. Yesterday, I was moving huge video files from my home directory to a removable USB hard disk (formatted to ext4 as well) when the system froze

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-29 Thread getaceres
I've installed the kernel in Jaunty proposed some days ago and since then I haven't had any hang. My system seems much more stable now. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-23 Thread enb
Updating the kernel fixed this for me. Thanks JoseStefan for easy instructions. I think one of the hardest parts of trouble shooting this is that it only seems to happen on certain hardware configurations, which means that initially I thought it was a hardware glitch of some kind due to it not

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-17 Thread Borph
Full acknowledgement! For me, I installed Kubuntu Jaunty fresh with native ext4 and external backup drive, also ext4. Actually it was because of a system crash in which I lost my complete partition. So I want to have the backup-system working now before I proceed! But I was stuck because of this

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-17 Thread JoseStefan
I've also been using the Karmic kernels on Jaunty (and the new nvidia drivers) as suggested by martinm1000. Unfortunately, it seems to require also updating the graphics drivers, in my case nvidia. I've applied this temporary fix a while back, seeing this is taking too long to fix. I also vote

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-17 Thread Borph
2009/7/17 JoseStefan joseste...@hotmail.com: I've also been using the Karmic kernels on Jaunty (and the new nvidia drivers) as suggested by martinm1000. Unfortunately, it seems to require also updating the graphics drivers, in my case nvidia. Because I'm using Nvidia, too, and read about some

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-16 Thread Luke Maurer
Huh. My system's also a single-core Athlon 64, and I'm getting it even worse (a single rm hangs). Is it possible that this is a race condition that's *more* likely on a single-core box? Seems like we've exhausted every other theory :-) -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-16 Thread Jared Heath
It happened very frequently on my Dual Core i86 based system (never got more than 5 single rm commands off without a hang before I went to the higher kernel) so it certanly can happen on multi-core systems often. Your theory on race conditions is interesting though--it certainly exhibits the

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-16 Thread Colin Sindle
Apologies, this is a qualitative post --- but now that people are talking about different processors, I'll contribute some fluffy info. That said, I experienced many freezes per day on my Core Solo laptop when doing dangerous operations (svn update, rsync, rm, etc.). Then I swapped to a Core 2

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-16 Thread Stephan Frank
Colin Sindle wrote: After an upgrade to 2.6.30-020630-generic #020630 from the Ubuntu Kernel-ppa mainline, (to solve unrelated HP laptop sound issues), I have not experienced any more freezes temporary, or otherwise. I have as well now manually switched to the 2.6.30-020630 kernel and the

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-16 Thread martinm1000
I'm going to reboot, after installing 2.6.30 + newer (185.18.14) NVidia drivers see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-common/+bug/384639/comments/8 to do it with NVidia working ;-) Hoping this will solve the crash problem. I would suggest to others to try the same, since the

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-13 Thread martinm1000
This fix seems to be working for me; didn't have a crash since. That was not easy to install, but I managed... -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-13 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Installed linux-image-2.6.28-14-generic 2.6.28-14.46 from jaunty- proposed. Ran hang.py, and still obtained a soft lockup. Doesn't seem like the update fixes this problem. So I guess Theodore Tso was right in pointing out above that this might not be the correct fix. (Note that for me

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-13 Thread martinm1000
I am on .28-14; I Didn't know about the python script; I'll try it after work. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-13 Thread Franz Dietzmann
I just read through all the comments (I hope), and did not find this mentioned, so I thought it might be helpful.. I had the problem for a long time, but didn't bother too much. Now it got annoying and after some searching I installed mainline 2.6.30 to see if it would work. As has been

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-13 Thread Derek
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Franz Dietzmann wrote: I just read through all the comments (I hope), and did not find this mentioned, so I thought it might be helpful.. I had the problem for a long time, but didn't bother too much. Now it got annoying and after some searching I installed mainline

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-13 Thread Franz Dietzmann
I highly doubt that it had something to do with permissions, as there were really all kinds of files (audio, video, documents..) from different sources (downloads, self-made..). I didn't mean this to be a cause of the bug, but rather a result and maybe an indicator to where things might be going

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-13 Thread martinm1000
Yep, I crashed using hang.py : Linux lantea 2.6.28-14-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 8 07:21:34 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 ext4 90G 76G 9.9G 89% / Didn't crash with 10GB of 100GB. /dev/sda5 ext4 90G 82G 4.2G

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-10 Thread James78
I have all the latest upgraded drivers, kernel, etc. Using a native ext4 partition, Jaunty w/latest KDE. Freezes and locks up the system almost every single time I empty the trash or delete certain items via Dolphin. Noticed this problem about 5 days ago, never seemed to be evident before then. I

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-10 Thread TiGR
I have installed new 2.6.28-14 from jaunty-proposed and switched to it from 2.6.29. Today I had another lockup during intensive disk usage. This fix does not work for me. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-09 Thread Luke Maurer
Roland Dreier wrote: Luke Maurer wrote: I've been able to reproduce it 100% reliably (rm a single file = crashy crashy) just in the Jaunty LiveCD environment. AFAIK, the most exotic filesystem hackery it uses is that union filesystem, though I was crashing on deleting something on a

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-09 Thread Jared Heath
Just started using Ubuntu and I had to go looking for why the server constantly locked on rm commands. This happens pretty much 100% of the time in my ext4 filesystems that are large (100gb 60%+ full). I cannot delete more than 20-30 files before it hangs. I also was able to go up to 2.6.29 and

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-08 Thread Roland Dreier
Luke Maurer wrote: I've been able to reproduce it 100% reliably (rm a single file = crashy crashy) just in the Jaunty LiveCD environment. AFAIK, the most exotic filesystem hackery it uses is that union filesystem, though I was crashing on deleting something on a separate, non-unionized

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-08 Thread Martin Pitt
Accepted linux into jaunty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance! ** Tags added: verification-needed --

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-08 Thread martinm1000
I can also reproduce this bug easily, but I never tried EnabledProposed; Where can I find the new kernel in aptitude text mode ? -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-06 Thread Keith Moyer
I also see this problem with no ecryptfs use (no FUSE-anything, just EXT4 all around). Does the fix that was committed for 9.04 assume this is caused by the ecryptfs deadlock? -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-06 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 23:32 +, Theodore Ts'o wrote: We might have a break in this bug. For those people who can reliably reproduce the problem, are you using ecryptfs, possibly extensively? Not at all here. But I rolled back to using ext4dev with the Intrepid kernel and now have

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-06 Thread Luke Maurer
On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 23:32 +, Theodore Ts'o wrote: We might have a break in this bug. For those people who can reliably reproduce the problem, are you using ecryptfs, possibly extensively? I've been able to reproduce it 100% reliably (rm a single file = crashy crashy) just in the Jaunty

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-05 Thread Theodore Ts'o
We might have a break in this bug. For those people who can reliably reproduce the problem, are you using ecryptfs, possibly extensively? Roland Drier has reported a potential lockdep report that might explain why some of us have had extreme problems reproducing the problem; namely we might not

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-05 Thread Abraham Smith
Ted, I've NOT been using ecryptfs, but I was using NFS and rsync-over-ssh on ext4 extensively during my lockups. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-05 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 01:11:40AM -, Abraham Smith wrote: Ted, I've NOT been using ecryptfs, but I was using NFS and rsync-over-ssh on ext4 extensively during my lockups. NFS client or server? If NFS server, were you exporting an ext4 filesystem?

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-05 Thread Abraham Smith
Both, actually. Yes, exporting ext4. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-05 Thread dnyaga
Ted, I've also not been using ecryptfs. I was one of the earliest reporters of this bug. At that time, (during the beta of Jaunty), the most common use case that triggered the bug was the running of multiple Virtualbox virtual machines WHILE simultaneously moving/deleting files across/from

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-05 Thread Feistybird
Hi Ted, even though at this point we've got a huge number of Fedora 11 users using ext4 w/o any problems.) Fedora 11 uses linux kernel 2.6.29.4, but Ubuntu 9.04 uses kernel 2.6.28 by default. I don't have any ext4 soft-lock-up problems using Ubuntu mainline kernel 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 netiher

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-05 Thread Derek
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Theodore Ts'o wrote: We might have a break in this bug. For those people who can reliably reproduce the problem, are you using ecryptfs, possibly extensively? Roland Drier has reported a potential lockdep report that might explain why some of us have had extreme problems

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-05 Thread Nick B.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Theodore Ts'o wrote: We might have a break in this bug. For those people who can reliably reproduce the problem, are you using ecryptfs, possibly extensively? Roland Drier has reported a potential lockdep report that might explain why some of

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-05 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:57:32AM -, Feistybird wrote: Hi Ted, even though at this point we've got a huge number of Fedora 11 users using ext4 w/o any problems.) Fedora 11 uses linux kernel 2.6.29.4, but Ubuntu 9.04 uses kernel 2.6.28 by default. I don't have any ext4

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-03 Thread Stefan Bader
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) Status: In Progress = Fix Committed -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-03 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 12:35 +, Stefan Bader wrote: ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) Status: In Progress = Fix Committed Which kernel? Can you paste the changelog entry? -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-21 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
On 20/06/2009 Michael Rooney wrote: . Ext4 is not the default file system so it only affects a small minority of users. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Importance for more information. I am not sure if this would qualify as a severe impact and it is already fixed in newer kernels as you

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread Jason Waddle
I registered just to say that I have been seriously affected by this bug, and it certainly deserves more than the medium designation. Single core, ~1GHz processor, would deadlock consistently on rm -rf'ing a directory of photos (~4MB each, thousands of them) using the stock ubuntu kernel 2.6.28-11

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread moli
Thank you Jason Waddle, i've updated my console-only server to 2.6.30 and succeed deleting 35494 files from an ext4 device in ~45 seconds without freezing. Help for the update: http://www.ramoonus.nl/2009/06/10/linux-kernel-2-6-30-installation-guide-for-ubuntu-and-debian-linux/

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread Brian Shannon
Ubuntu folks, when am I going to be able to tell my mom it's a good idea to ditch the Windows and go Ubuntu? To be blunt, when you decide to use the stable defaults Ubuntu provides. Sorry about being off topic but this was just so ridiculous I had to pass comment. -- Soft lockups (freezes)

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Moreover, that comment came after the poster updated a console only server :) -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread Michael Rooney
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Jason Waddlejwad...@gmail.com wrote: I registered just to say that I have been seriously affected by this bug, and it certainly deserves more than the medium designation. While I can definitely understand your frustration, please keep in mind the context of your

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread Andrius Štikonas
2009/6/20 Brian Shannon teapot.philosop...@googlemail.com Ubuntu folks, when am I going to be able to tell my mom it's a good idea to ditch the Windows and go Ubuntu? To be blunt, when you decide to use the stable defaults Ubuntu provides. Sorry about being off topic but this was just so

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread Michael Rooney
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Jason Waddlejwad...@gmail.com wrote: Releasing with ext4 (without any sort of cautionary warnings in the installer!) in this shape was a serious mistake. It is also documented in the release notes:

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Sorry for multiple pollution of the bug report but I got things wrong. And in fact a warning to the installer would be a nice addition, however the release notes are clear on the ext4 bugs. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread Michael Rooney
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Andrius Štikonasstiko...@gmail.com wrote: If everybody is using stable defaults then who will test or develop new software? Every software community must have early testers and if they report something it would be in the best interests of community to fix

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread Jason Waddle
I want to apologize for my last comment. I really like having a free operating system and all the free software, and I love the people who volunteer their time putting it all together and making it work as well as it does (thank you!). I was in a bit of a mood after messing with this thing all

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread JoseStefan
This bug doesn't seem to trigger on ext3 file systems mounted as ext4. Can anyone confirm? Maybe we can pinpoint which of the new ext4 attributes are needed to trigger the bug? -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread Andrew Aylett
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:49:01 - JoseStefan joseste...@hotmail.com wrote: This bug doesn't seem to trigger on ext3 file systems mounted as ext4. Can anyone confirm? Maybe we can pinpoint which of the new ext4 attributes are needed to trigger the bug? I can confirm that I only saw the bug

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Nicholas Roberts
I have resisted posting because 'me too' is not helpful. However, I am operating two very different machines (no two pieces of hardware the same) with the same operating system (Jaunty [ext4] with all the latest updates). Both machines exhibit the same 'freezing' problem on deleting files and the

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Øyvind Stegard
fr., 19.06.2009 kl. 07.26 +, skrev Nicholas Roberts: I have resisted posting because 'me too' is not helpful. However, I am operating two very different machines (no two pieces of hardware the same) with the same operating system (Jaunty [ext4] with all the latest updates). Both machines

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread _dan_
I dont want to be rude but the its your own fault, dont use it attitude does not help anyone. I am pretty sure everyone knows they can use ext3, thats not the point of a bugreport tho. If Ubuntu ships with ext4 supoort it should work period. In this current state its almost unusable. -- Soft

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Nicholas Roberts
Regarding Øyvind's wise words... I completely agree Øyvind and you are right sir. That said, there are an awful lot of people (like me) who have opted for ext4 believing that any major bugs would be sorted in the usual timely fashion that we have come to enjoy from the Ubuntu community. I think

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Øyvind Stegard
fr., 19.06.2009 kl. 08.53 +, skrev _dan_: I dont want to be rude but the its your own fault, dont use it attitude does not help anyone. I am pretty sure everyone knows they can use ext3, thats not the point of a bugreport tho. If Ubuntu ships with ext4 supoort it should work period. In

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Øyvind Stegard
fr., 19.06.2009 kl. 08.57 +, Nicholas Roberts: Regarding Øyvind's wise words... I agree with what you're saying ! This bug sucks. Also see my reply to dan. And the warning about EXT4 should be more prominent in the release notes. Thankfully, they did not set it as default fs. Sorry for the

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Andri
I realize that I'm just adding to the problem, but... Please conduct these discussions somewhere else. There are a lot of people subscribed to this thread, not because they want to discuss it, but probably because they are waiting for a fix to be released. So at a risk of being rude; please

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread jagnet
Well said Andri. Now back to the bug. I have been running 2 entirely different servers with the desktop version of 9.10 for 3 weeks now with EXT3 and other with EXT4. In 8.10 and 9.04 Ubuntu froze as described above when I deleted large numbers of files. Or indeed when any software deleted

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Bryan Quigley
I can not recommend strongly enough that you DO NOT follow jagnet's advice and upgrade to Karmic to get away from this bug.  Yes the bug is fixed in Karmic, but in development releases many many worse bugs can be found (especially this early). Unfortunately, the only truly supported solution has

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread pritam ghanghas
Hi There is a better solution as suggested before in the discussion. Download 2.6.30 from here http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/. I never had a problem after installing mainline. I wont recommend it if you are using some proprietary drivers from Ubuntu. They may not be

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Another possibility is to use the Karmic kernel but keep a Jaunty userspace. I haven't tried this myself, but I suspect it is highly likely to work. As far as people complaining --- please note that (a) Ubuntu has not made this the default, and (b) when I talked to the Canonical kernel team,

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
P.S. There is a known ext4 file system corruption bug which is fixed in the 2.6.30 mainline kernel and in 2.6.29.5. It was found after the stable kernel series stopped updating for 2.6.28, but I do carry a fix for it in my for-stable-2.6.28 branch of the ext4 git tree, located here:

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Ulrich Hobelmann
FWIW, I've installed a kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/ and I haven't had any problems since then. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Leann Ogasawara
Hi Ted, I've opened bug 389555, https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/linux/+bug/389555, to track the issue you mentioned in comment https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/330824/comments/191 . Thanks. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Derek
On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Theodore Ts'o wrote: P.S. There is a known ext4 file system corruption bug which is fixed in the 2.6.30 mainline kernel and in 2.6.29.5. It was found after the stable kernel series stopped updating for 2.6.28, but I do carry a fix for it in my for-stable-2.6.28 branch

Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 04:49:19PM -, Derek wrote: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git for-stable-2.6.28 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git;a=shortlog;h=for-stable-2.6.28 (This is where it's handy to have a file system

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-14 Thread Åskar
@vaibhav mishra; you should open a new report about the issue with your wireless broadcom. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-11 Thread vaibhav mishra
I installed the karmic kernel (using kernelcheck) ,and rebooted, no system freezes though but as a side-effect my wireless stopped working, I am on Jaunty with broadcomm b43 wireless, the lid didn't go on, as if thre is no wireless , SystemAdministrationHardware drivers show that driver is

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-11 Thread vaibhav mishra
update: now hardware drivers say , broadcom wireless is activated but still it is not working. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-09 Thread iamringo
@Ulrich...I know this has been mentioned before, but you could try out one of the karmic kernels and see if you still have problems...if you are, then you can be fairly sure your problems aren't related -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-08 Thread Luke Maurer
@Ulrich: Are you sure none of those operations involved deleting files? The usual symptom is that the system hangs *after* the rm is successful, so that's not out of character. SVN does some amount of file-based locking, IIUC, which means at some point it has to rm the lock file. Creating a

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-08 Thread Scott S
I am using jaunty 64 bit. I formated using ext4 on 320 gig hard drive. It hangs when moving files from NTFS usb drive that I used for backup. It also tells me the trash can is full. I changed the trash can to 50% or 107 gigs. It should not have been full. I also states the files are to large

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-08 Thread DanielV
@Luke: yes the files that were moved that caused the computer to freeze were on the same volume. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

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