* Tim Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-29-07 12:26]: > I am using Suse 10.2 on two different machines. One is a new Dell > Poweredge 2970, the other is an older (2002) "no-name" server. Both > have experienced a strange and severe problem since I installed Suse. > > Basically the file system is put into a read-only state. While the OS > and all apps are still running and I can log in a view files/logs etc. > nothing can write to the disks. Obviously this causes all kinds of > problems. The only way to get the filesystem into a more interactive > state is a hard reboot. > > The first two times this occurred, there were messages in the > /var/log/messages file relating to megasas, however as soon as the > system was restarted, these warnings disappeared. I believe the file > was not actually written to the disk when the system freaked out so > once logging resumed those entries were lost. The messages are > somewhat similar to these that I found via a Google search: > > sd 1:2:0:0: megasas: RESET -286287 cmd=8a > megasas: [ 0]waiting for 12 commands to complete > megasas: [ 5]waiting for 12 commands to complete > megasas: [10]waiting for 12 commands to complete > megasas: [15]waiting for 12 commands to complete > ... > megasas: [170]waiting for 12 commands to complete > megasas: [175]waiting for 12 commands to complete > megasas: failed to do reset > sd 1:2:0:0: megasas: RESET -286287 cmd=8a > megasas: cannot recover from previous reset failures > sd 1:2:0:0: megasas: RESET -286287 cmd=8a > megasas: cannot recover from previous reset failures > sd 1:2:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
see the 2nd hit searching google for megasas: http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2007-March/029992.html > Tim Donnelly > Systems/Network Administrator > Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries > (303)759-3399 x106 I would think that the *first* thing a "systems/network administrator" would do is a quick google search :^) -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
