Dear Stanislav, dear smartmontools developers, I've upgraded one of my servers to smartmontools 6.1 today, that happens to drive a Areca SAS controller, specifically: <5>[ 7.206669] Areca RAID Controller6: F/W V1.46 2009-01-06 & Model ARC-1680 <6>[ 7.270516] scsi6 : Areca SAS Host Adapter RAID Controller( RAID6 capable) <6>[ 7.270516] Driver Version 1.20.00.15 2010/08/05 Thing is, the system freezes immediately after running (updating) smartd. rpm stopped at 89%, and the system was *locked*. While I can switch consoles, even Sys-Req S and U doesn't finish anymore, while B worked. :-( Reverting to version 6.0 resolved it for me. I'm using the simplest of all cases of /etc/smartd.conf, since that worked reasonably well: DEVICESCAN -d removable -m root While userspace is rather old (openSUSE 11.1/i586), it's controlled by a reasonably current kernel: <5>[ 0.000000] Linux version 3.8.3-3-pae (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.3.2 [gcc-4_3-branch revision 141291] (SUSE Linux) ) #1 SMP Fri Mar 15 08:16:33 UTC 2013 (1ca6928) All packages are built on OBS, smartmontools here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=smartmontools&project=home%3Afrispete%3Atools I would seriously consider reverting the 6.0 -> 6.1 transition in the openSUSE repos, until this issue is fixed. Let me know, what additional information I can provide in order to resolve the issue. Thanks, Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org