On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Peter M. Petrakis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 03/13/2012 02:47 PM, Asif Iqbal wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Peter M. Petrakis >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On 03/13/2012 12:09 AM, Asif Iqbal wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Asif Iqbal<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I am failing to boot this server x4270 pass the mdadm --monitor. >>>>> Installed lucid amd64. This is a first install. >>>>> >>>>> details: http://paste.ubuntu.com/880895/ >>>>> >>>>> It boots all the way in recovery mode. what gives? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ok. I reinstalled lucid 64bit. No more GPT error. But it hangs right >>>> after mdadm --monitor >>> >>> >>> >>> At least that's an improvement. >>> >>>> >>>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/881409/ >>> >>> >>> >>> ... >>> >>> mdadm: sending ioctl 1261 to a partition! >>> >>> (I confused syscall with storage ioctl earlier, whoops :) >>> >>> Now that we're just down to this problem, a little google... >>> >>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656899: >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783823 >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783955 >>> >>> http://www.serverphorums.com/read.php?12,436266 >>> >>> and ... I think there's a fix: >>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/24/136 >>> >>> Probably worth filing a bug at this point, also please try and >>> reproduce this issue with oneiric, and the latest mainline >>> kernel [1] if possible. Thanks. >> >> >> installed oneiric this time. failed to mount /var, /home, /opt and >> /usr/local LVs. >> I had to run vgchange -a y to make those LVs available and then >> booted all the way. details: http://paste.ubuntu.com/882168/ >> >> And I choose skip.. it does boot all the way but not so useful w/o /var >> as shown below.
after few reboots, now it reboots all the way by itself. http://paste.ubuntu.com/882277/ also my OS is the two small disks on disk 8 and disk 9. so I installed the grub on all the disks so it always boot from the disk 8 or disk 9 (raid1). Thanks for all your help. I will follow up with bug report. > > > So if you read the Debian bug report, you would find that this issue > is a result of recent security update that tightened ioctl access > to disks, virtual machines were able to write to backing stores. It > appears to require some tuning which is the basis for the fix I posted > earlier. > > At this point you have to follow through with the rest of my original > advice, and also consider going back one or two kernel revs where > this security fix doesn't exist. That should alleviate the 'ioctl 1261' > issue, and the bug you're supposed to report will get the requisite patch > into the next version of the distro kernel so you can move forward. > > So in lucid: > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/2.6.32-39.86 > * block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices > - LP: #926321 > > and oneiric: > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/3.0.0-16.29 > * block: fail SCSI passthrough ioctls on partition devices > - LP: #922799 > > I think that's the CVE that's the cause of your problems. So rewind kernels > until it's not there and verify that your problem is resolved. I think you > can take the rest from here. > > Peter > > > >> >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds >>> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Asif Iqbal >>>>> PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu >>>>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. >>>>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> ubuntu-server mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server >>> More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam >> >> >> >> > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam -- Asif Iqbal PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
