Re: kernel panic after 5.2 RELEASE --> 5.2.1, DELL PE2650, SCSI

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:41:05 -0700
Jason M. Leonard wrote:
> 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

If there is any way that you could send me the errors that you were
getting, I would appreciate it.

Scott
Received on Tue Feb 17 2004 - 14:43:49 UTC

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