Bug#678236: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Disk IO error when running debian 6.0.x with buslogic virtual disk and 4G+ mem in a VMware VM

[Peter Cao <pengzhencao@vmware.com>]

Hi Ben,

The disk became read-only when the error happens so the log was not saved.
But I have a screenshot for the error msg:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=debian-605-32bit-buslogic-6Gmem-IO_error.png;att=2;bug=678236

We have not see any error with PVSCSI adapter so far.
And there is no error with debian 64bit release but only the 32bit release with large memory+buslogic.

Regards,
Peter Cao

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Hutchings" <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: "Peter Cao" <pengzhencao@vmware.com>, 678236@bugs.debian.org
Cc: "chunmei(Tracy) Huang" <cmhuang@vmware.com>, "Arvind Kumar" <arkumar@vmware.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:22:54 PM
Subject: Re: Bug#678236: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Disk IO error when running debian 6.0.x with buslogic virtual disk and 4G+ mem in a VMware VM

On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 23:37 -0700, Peter Cao wrote:
> Subject: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Disk IO error when running debian
> 6.0.x with buslogic virtual disk and 4G+ mem in a VMware VM
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.32-45
> Severity: important
> 
> *** Please type your report below this line ***
> There will be Disk IO error and then rootfs Read-Only when running
> debian 6.0.x(including 6.0.1, 6.0.4, 6.0.5...) in a VMware VM with
> buslogic virtual disk
> and with 4G+ memory, in which condition linux-image-xxx-amd64 kernel
> will be used
[...]

Can I see the log for that?

We also include a backport of vmw_pvscsi; does that work better?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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