Re: BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-22 Thread Mark Post
On 4/22/20 12:16 PM, Will, Chris wrote: > Mark, > > Dasda2 and dasdd1 should have all the LVM logical volumes that are part of > the root file system (/usr, /var, /opt, /home, /tmp) which are xfs file > systems. The remainder of the root file system(/) is on dasda1 (ext4). > When I cat

Re: BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-22 Thread Will, Chris
Mark, Dasda2 and dasdd1 should have all the LVM logical volumes that are part of the root file system (/usr, /var, /opt, /home, /tmp) which are xfs file systems. The remainder of the root file system(/) is on dasda1 (ext4). When I cat /proc/cio_ignore it is empty. When I run Dracut I get

Re: BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-22 Thread marcy cortes
Try when you are in that shell vgchange -ay system You may have to chzdev -e first On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 9:21 AM Will, Chris wrote: > This has now happened on two SLES 12 SP4 that have had any of the LVM root > file system (/var /tmp, etc) expanded (lvextend). Here is the error >

Re: BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-22 Thread Cohen, Sam
Probably notthe Linux world seemed easier for me to understand before all the "unification" efforts (like grub, systemd, et al). Just showing my age. Thanks for the explanation, Mark. Thanks, Sam (217) 862-9227 (office) (602) 327-2134 (cell) -Original Message- From: Linux on 390

Re: BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-22 Thread Mark Post
On 4/22/20 11:03 AM, Will, Chris wrote: > Scanning devices dasda2 dasdd1 sda1 sdb1 sdc1 sdd1 for LVM logical volumes > system-vg/usr-lv So, this is the list of eligible block devices that are currently active on this system. Are all the block devices that *should* be there, actually there? Are

Re: BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-22 Thread Mark Post
On 4/22/20 11:21 AM, Cohen, Sam wrote: > FWIW, every time I run dracut, I then run zipl before IPLing. If you're doing this on a SLES system that's using grub2, I'm not at all sure zipl is doing what you think it is. The zipl command is *only* used to re-write the block locations for the "grub2

Re: BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-22 Thread Cohen, Sam
Chris, FWIW, every time I run dracut, I then run zipl before IPLing. Thanks, Sam (217) 862-9227 (office) (602) 327-2134 (cell) -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port On Behalf Of Will, Chris Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 8:03 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: BCACHE

Re: BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-22 Thread Will, Chris
I have a more current version of Dracut but still having issues. I expanded the volume (got the BCACHE messages), ran "dracut -f" and rebooted and got a disabled wait. From the other server here are some of the messages from the rdsosreport file. + cat /lib/dracut/dracut-044-10.21.1

Re: BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-21 Thread marcy cortes
Yes, we had this in two forms. Both fixed by the dracut fix (and rerunning it) Subject: SR101238520451 Re dracut timeout problems after patching Marcy, We released this fix in maint (dracut-044.2-10.15.2.s390x). The other

Re: BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-21 Thread Mark Post
On 4/21/20 12:11 PM, Will, Chris wrote: > Has anyone run into something like this? I would like to fix this > proactively and not wait until the server dies and I have to go into > emergency mode. This could be an issue with all our servers. Hi, Chris, I really thing the BCACHE messages are

Re: BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-21 Thread Marcy Cortes
Yes, we had this in two forms. Both fixed by the dracut fix (and rerunning it) Subject: SR101238520451 Re dracut timeout problems after patching Marcy, We released this fix in maint (dracut-044.2-10.15.2.s390x). The other issue related to this:

BCACHE errors on lvextend, on reboot goes to dracut emergency mode

2020-04-21 Thread Will, Chris
This has now happened on two SLES 12 SP4 that have had any of the LVM root file system (/var /tmp, etc) expanded (lvextend). Here is the error message. sles12osdev2:~ # lvextend -L +2G /dev/mapper/system--vg-opt--lv scan_dev_close /dev/dasda2 no DEV_IN_BCACHE set scan_dev_close /dev/dasdc1 no