Re: Any Kernel wizards out there?
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 08:17 +0100, Stefan Scheytt wrote: There are some oddball machines here running on HP server hardware with openSUSE 2.6.22 kernels that like crashing randomly. My feeble attempts to switch them over to a different, freshly built kernel with kexec/kdump slappen on it have so far been in vain.. mainly because the storage doesn't want to play ball. Have you already checked to ensure the problems are not caused by hardware issues? If the crashes really are random it usually points to hardware.
Re: Any Kernel wizards out there?
On 16 Dec 2010, at 07:17, Stefan Scheytt wrote: Hello there monglers and mongelettes, There are some oddball machines here running on HP server hardware with openSUSE 2.6.22 kernels that like crashing randomly. My feeble attempts to switch them over to a different, freshly built kernel with kexec/kdump slappen on it have so far been in vain.. mainly because the storage doesn't want to play ball. So,, if any gurus out there fancy some very good money and a free all-expenses trip to Munich to wrestle some of these beasts down... drop me a private e-mail and I'll get you talking to The People. Are you getting kernel dumps? Back in the 2.0.xx days we had issues with SCSI drivers that didn't multi-process properly but the crash dumps were very helpful. And as Jason said, test the hardware well. At least give them a good thrashing with memtest86.
Re: Any Kernel wizards out there?
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Stefan Scheytt stefan.sche...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there monglers and mongelettes, There are some oddball machines here running on HP server hardware with openSUSE 2.6.22 kernels that like crashing randomly. My feeble attempts to switch them over to a different, freshly built kernel with kexec/kdump slappen on it have so far been in vain.. mainly because the storage doesn't want to play ball. Just curious - are you using XFS? If so, there were some bugs fixed after 2.6.18 which expose problems / corruption that was caused in 2.6.18 and before. This exposure results in kernel panics regularly. If you have this, your only option is to back up, wipe, reinstall.
Any Kernel wizards out there?
Hello there monglers and mongelettes, There are some oddball machines here running on HP server hardware with openSUSE 2.6.22 kernels that like crashing randomly. My feeble attempts to switch them over to a different, freshly built kernel with kexec/kdump slappen on it have so far been in vain.. mainly because the storage doesn't want to play ball. So,, if any gurus out there fancy some very good money and a free all-expenses trip to Munich to wrestle some of these beasts down... drop me a private e-mail and I'll get you talking to The People. - Stefan
