[Bug 433980] New: Installation on softRAID 1 w/ XFS freezes
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 Summary: Installation on softRAID 1 w/ XFS freezes Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Beta 2 Platform: i586 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: danielstefanmader@web.de QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- The installation procedure on a soft RAID1- XFS root filesystem freezes when installing the GRUB-rpm package. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 Andreas Jaeger <aj@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com |kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 User lmb@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980#c3 Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |danielstefanmader@web.de --- Comment #3 from Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@novell.com> 2008-10-12 14:43:01 MDT --- Are there any log messages on the console? How about /var/log/messages? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 User danielstefanmader@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980#c4 Daniel Mader <danielstefanmader@web.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|danielstefanmader@web.de | --- Comment #4 from Daniel Mader <danielstefanmader@web.de> 2008-10-13 02:18:58 MDT --- The consoles are free, no apparent error. That doesn't mean, though, that there couldn't be some when it would have come to my mind to call tail /var/log/messages... Yet, I have repeated that procedure many times now and it is 100% reproducible, at least with the Beta 2 DVD. I can't verify if it is related to the IDE drives I use, due to a lack of a SATA machines. Installation on a softRAID 1 on XFS works flawlessly with SLES 10 on SATA drives. We very much hope that the upcoming SLES 11 will support this, too. This is mainly why I filed this bug report. Thanks in advance! -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com |susexfs@sgi.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 User danielstefanmader@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980#c5 --- Comment #5 from Daniel Mader <danielstefanmader@web.de> 2008-10-23 12:21:33 MDT --- Still the very same behavior with Beta3. With ext3 as filesystem for the softRAID 1 the installation finishes (I haven't babysitted it, though) but leaves me with a panicked shell after the first boot. Will attach screenies. The errors look similar to bug #429121, btw... -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 User danielstefanmader@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980#c6 --- Comment #6 from Daniel Mader <danielstefanmader@web.de> 2008-10-23 12:23:57 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=247592) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=247592) screenshot of the system state after the installation I have not interfered with the installation after starting it, so this is what you get after returning to the computer after 40mins or so. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 User danielstefanmader@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980#c7 --- Comment #7 from Daniel Mader <danielstefanmader@web.de> 2008-10-23 12:25:00 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=247593) --> (https://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=247593) screenshot with some more details -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 User danielstefanmader@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980#c8 Daniel Mader <danielstefanmader@web.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary|Installation on softRAID 1 w/ XFS freezes |Installation on XFS root partition freezes when | |installing grub package --- Comment #8 from Daniel Mader <danielstefanmader@web.de> 2008-10-23 14:50:12 MDT --- More info on the issue: out of curiosity I installed on a regular IDE partition with XFS as filesystem. No softRAID. And the package installation freezes at the very same time, i.e. when the grub package is to be installed. So, this looks like GRUB with XFS is severely broken. I will change the title to reflect this. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 User danielstefanmader@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980#c9 --- Comment #9 from Daniel Mader <danielstefanmader@web.de> 2008-10-23 14:52:11 MDT --- Also, this is on a totally different machine (was: Celeron desktop PC - is: Pentium M laptop), so it is not a hardware issue. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 User joe@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980#c10 Joachim Werner <joe@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |joe@novell.com --- Comment #10 from Joachim Werner <joe@novell.com> 2008-10-24 09:12:08 MDT --- I ran into this, too. The grub maintainer says that installing grub into XFS is not (or at least no longer) supported. There is a bug open to fix the options available in the YaST partitioner. See bug #438757. Possible workarounds are installing grub into the MBR or adding a non-XFS /boot partition. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 User danielstefanmader@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980#c11 --- Comment #11 from Daniel Mader <danielstefanmader@web.de> 2008-11-05 06:07:33 MST --- Just wanted to drop a line to mention that installing grub into MBR does *not* change anything at all: the installation freezes again when installing the grub package. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 User nfbrown@novell.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980#c12 Neil Brown <nfbrown@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |nfbrown@novell.com Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |danielstefanmader@web.de --- Comment #12 from Neil Brown <nfbrown@novell.com> 2008-11-09 18:04:53 MST --- When you get the message: invalid root filesystem -- exiting to /bin/sh could you try lsmod to see if the 'xfs' module is loaded mount /dev/md0 /root to see if you can mount manually mount -t xfs /dev/md0 /root to see if you can mount by explicitly giving the filesystem type. This looks like it might be the same bug as bug #435778 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 User danielstefanmader@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980#c13 Daniel Mader <danielstefanmader@web.de> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|danielstefanmader@web.de | --- Comment #13 from Daniel Mader <danielstefanmader@web.de> 2008-12-22 04:38:39 MST --- I have no authorization to check on bug #435778. But since that XFS grub bug is now very official, I think this bug can be closed: it is impossible to boot from an XFS root partition, anyway, and the installer puts a prominent warning to try to do so. All I am worrying about now is our SLES 10 setup: it boots from an XFS softRAID1 and we have no extra EXT3 /boot partition, so I'm afraid that an upgrade to upcoming SLES11 will break the system. With all the given limitations and hassles of grub (especially on a system with mixed SATA/IDE drives), wouldn't it be a good idea to look for better alternatives? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 User whiplash@pobox.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980#c14 Gordon Schumacher <whiplash@pobox.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |whiplash@pobox.com Version|Beta 2 |Final --- Comment #14 from Gordon Schumacher <whiplash@pobox.com> 2009-03-11 08:30:31 MST --- Just wanted to follow up on this bug... I just ran across this attempting to install openSUSE 11.1. I have /dev/md0 as my boot partition formatted with ext3 (I saw the warnings about XFS using sector 0, thus not workable with GRUB), /dev/md1 as swap, and /dev/md2 as my root partition formatted with XFS. The first phase of the install completed without error, but now that the system rebooted to complete the install, I see exactly the behaviour described above... and no, the installer did not warn me of anything whatsoever. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 User whiplash@pobox.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980#c15 --- Comment #15 from Gordon Schumacher <whiplash@pobox.com> 2009-03-11 14:23:28 MST --- Sorry, after a bunch more digging... it appears to have to do with udev rules not filling in the ID_FS_xxxx fields - looks very similar to bug #222471, except that bug claims to have been fixed ages ago. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980 User whiplash@pobox.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433980#c16 Gordon Schumacher <whiplash@pobox.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC|whiplash@pobox.com | --- Comment #16 from Gordon Schumacher <whiplash@pobox.com> 2009-03-11 14:38:51 MST --- ..dig dig dig... Turns out it's actually bug #445490, sorry for the noise. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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