Hi again,

  I have installed newest kernel available for RHEL5 (2.6.18-238.5.1.el5) and OCFS2 packages to match. After only few hours of running, while rsync backup was done, on one of nodes I got following error (after which it hang and required reset):

Mar 19 03:42:52 server3 kernel: (dlm_thread,5166,5):dlm_drop_lockres_ref:2216 ERROR: while dropping ref on BDB600C633D74D6B85C496D78F566879:O000000000000000009cf0300000000 (master=1) got -22.
Mar 19 03:42:52 server3 kernel: lockres: O000000000000000009cf0300000000, owner=1, state=64
Mar 19 03:42:52 server3 kernel:   last used: 4298724889, refcnt: 3, on purge list: yes
Mar 19 03:42:52 server3 kernel:   on dirty list: no, on reco list: no, migrating pending: no
Mar 19 03:42:52 server3 kernel:   inflight locks: 0, asts reserved: 0
Mar 19 03:42:52 server3 kernel:   refmap nodes: [ ], inflight=0
Mar 19 03:42:52 server3 kernel:   granted queue:
Mar 19 03:42:52 server3 kernel:   converting queue:
Mar 19 03:42:52 server3 kernel:   blocked queue:
Mar 19 03:42:53 server3 kernel: ----------- [cut here ] --------- [please bite here ] ---------
Mar 19 03:42:53 server3 kernel: Kernel BUG at ...xiaowei/BUILD/ocfs2-1.4.7/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c:2218
Mar 19 03:42:53 server3 kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP


  OCFS2 package for this kernel was created this month (march 2011), so it should include bug fixes from last year (I guess). If I understand well, dlm which produces error is part of OCFS2 module. I would assume bug mentioned below, if fixed, should be not exist in OCFS2 package for RHEL5's newest kernel, or am I wrong?

  Anyone can offer help? Is there anyone with RHEL5/Centos5 using OCFS2 1.4 without periodic oopses/panics and reboots becausel of DLM drop issue?

  Best Regards,
  Nikola

Sunil Mushran wrote:
Sunil Mushran <sunil.mush...@oracle.com> This specific bug (associated with the message) has been fixed here.
http://oss.oracle.com/git/?p=ocfs2-1.4.git;a=commit;h=1f667766cb67ed05b4d706aa82e8ad0b12eaae8b
This should result in an oops and thus panic. But just on this node.

If other nodes are rebooting then I suspect some sysctl values are
incorrect. Ensure /proc/sys/kernel/panic and /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_oops
are set appropriately. See user's guide for more.

On 03/18/2011 03:51 PM, Nikola Savic wrote:

  Hi,

  I have 3 nodes cluster using OCFS2 1.4 on CentOS5.5 (kernel 2.6.18-194). Two nodes (server1 and server2) are providing shared storage using DRBD. Shared storage exported to nodes using iSCSI (server1 is target and all other nodes are iSCSI initiators).

  Today cluster went down. Server 1 was not accessable, while server2 and server3 got rebooted with log showing that connected to server 1 was lost, and because of that, servers were rebooted. However, in server1's logs doesn't have errors like that. There are only following lines minute before other two servers rebooted:

Mar 18 20:58:03 server1 kernel: (dlm_thread,5154,3):dlm_drop_lockres_ref:2216 ERROR: while dropping ref on BDB600C633D74D6B85C496D78F566879:O0000000000000002e81a8700000000 (master=1) got -22.
Mar 18 20:58:03 server1 kernel: lockres: O0000000000000002e81a8700000000, owner=1, state=64
Mar 18 20:58:03 server1 kernel:   last used: 4501088944, refcnt: 3, on purge list: yes
Mar 18 20:58:03 server1 kernel:   on dirty list: no, on reco list: no, migrating pending: no
Mar 18 20:58:03 server1 kernel:   inflight locks: 0, asts reserved: 0
Mar 18 20:58:03 server1 kernel:   refmap nodes: [ ], inflight=0
Mar 18 20:58:03 server1 kernel:   granted queue:
Mar 18 20:58:03 server1 kernel:   converting queue:
Mar 18 20:58:03 server1 kernel:   blocked queue:

  I think that I saw, from time to time, errors like this logged in /var/log/messages, but servers continue to work without hanging. Is this kind of error serious enough for server to go down? If it is, why is it happening and how to prevent it?

  Thanks,
  Nikola

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