Bug#417927: parisc: SCSI devices get randomly offlined
Package: linux-image-2.6-parisc64
Version: 2.6.18+5
Severity: important
A bug which affects all parisc kernels since 2.6.18-rc2 affects the
debian parisc kernel as well.
Under some random circumstances, SCSI devices (such as the root disk)
will get offlined, rendering the box totally unuseable:
sd 1:0:5:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
EXT3-fs error (device sda3): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #1175041
offset 0
sd 1:0:5:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
sd 1:0:5:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
sd 1:0:5:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
I can't paste the initial messages from the kernel bug since they were
out of dmesg at this point, but this is a known bug already reported on
parisc-linux mailing lists, see eg this thread:
http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2007-January/031078.html
So far this bug has been isolated on 64bit SMP machines. I can't tell
for sure whether 32bit and/or UP are safe.
HTH
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: hppa (parisc64)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-parisc64-smp
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6-parisc64 depends on:
ii linux-image-2.6.18-3-parisc64 2.6.18-7 Linux 2.6.18 image on 64-bit PA-RI
linux-image-2.6-parisc64 recommends no packages.
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