Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 10:34:13 -0500 (EST) From: "Jason M. Leonard" <fuzz@ldc.upenn.edu> To: Raphael.Becker@gmx.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel panic after 5.2 RELEASE --> 5.2.1, DELL PE2650, SCSI Message-ID: <20040217102453.V59439@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu>
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Raphael H. Becker wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday I got a new DELL PE2650 with PERC and two RAIDs (complete > dmesg [1]). > Installed with 5.2 from "miniinst.iso" and updated with fresh sources > from CVS, -r RELENG_5_2. buildworld and buildkernel went fine. Just > after reboot with the new kernel and after "installworld" the system > died with some strange SCSI-Errors, kernel panic. "Calling boot() for > CPU1 ... " something like that. Then the well known few lines, syncing > disc etc ... > While syncing disks there were some more SCSI-Errors, Timeout after ... > 75 ... 255 ... seconds and so on, no more acting drives. > > I powercycled after 7 minutes, the console was messed up with the > scsi-errors, so I have no more details about the panic, powercycle > flushed the dmesg .oO(why not dumping kernelmessages to an USB-stick??) > > System rebootet, but with a nearly empty /usr/sbin. > Retry of "make installworld" failed, because it wants to copy some tools > in an temporary dir in /tmp and didn't find some tools in /usr/sbin. > Managed that manually, installworld succeeded. > > > Kernel ist a GENERIC with only > -cpu I486_CPU > -cpu I586_CPU > +#cpu I486_CPU > +#cpu I586_CPU > ( BTW: has anyone a perfect DELL PE2650 kernelconfig for 5.x? ) > > Anyone some hints about the panic? > How to avoid this? > > Regards, > Raphael Becker > > PS: The actual dmesg.boot: > [1] http://rhb.uugrn.org/temp/dmesg.boot.pinserv4 Without seeing the actual SCSI errors it is hard to say, but I was experiencing a very similar issue with my PE2650. Disabling write caching on the RAID 1 container cleared it up. I do not know if that is the best way to go about it, but this server had to be in production pronto, so I was happy. :Fuzz
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