http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573244 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=573244#c25 --- Comment #25 from roland kletzing <devzero@web.de> 2010-04-07 14:53:15 UTC --- thanks. you`re lucky that i could test it, as this server is already in production, but i had a timeslot for maintenance today and dared installing a second kernel, risking to trash the system. don`t tell my chief, shhhh ;) anyway, thanks for the patch. it seems to fix the issue to some degree, but it seems it`s not the perfect solution, as the behaviour looks racy now, i.e. i could crash the system reliably before - now it only crashes sporadically on smartd start. so the fix seems to point into the right direction. this is what smartd -d MAY respond with the patch applied: smartd 5.39 2009-08-08 r2872~ [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (openSUSE RPM) Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf Drive: DEVICESCAN, implied '-a' Directive on line 26 of file /etc/smartd.conf Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf was parsed, found DEVICESCAN, scanning devices glob(3) found no matches for pattern /dev/hd[a-t] Device: /dev/sda, opened Device: /dev/sda, Bad IEC (SMART) mode page, err=5, skip device Unable to register SCSI device /dev/sda at line 26 of file /etc/smartd.conf Unable to monitor any SMART enabled devices. Try debug (-d) option. Exiting... running several "smartd -d" one after the other still crashes the system. running smartd -d in a loop reliably crashes the system , mostly within 10 or 20 execs of smartd. regards Roland -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.