NFS kernel oops with Thecus DMA patch

2009-09-23 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi folks, After building myself a 2.6.30 kernel with the iop dma patches for my Thecus, I started seeing reproducible kernel oopses on large NFS transfers, such as the one included below. After some prodding at the source for other uses of down_read(), I concluded that we're not supposed to call

Re: NFS kernel oops with Thecus DMA patch

2009-09-23 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:28:52PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: After building myself a 2.6.30 kernel with the iop dma patches for my Thecus, I started seeing reproducible kernel oopses on large NFS transfers, such as the one included below. After some prodding at the source for other uses

Thecus recovery

2009-09-23 Thread Markus Ulbricht
Hi folks, after running a few hundred days continuously my N2100 is now no longer pingable. After rebooting with Power off/on (frontpanel switch was no longer working) no success with ping etc. Some HDD action is noticeable, no red front panel lights etc. I am afraid that e2fsk etc is needed.

Re: Thecus recovery

2009-09-23 Thread Bill Gatliff
Markus Ulbricht wrote: Hi folks, after running a few hundred days continuously my N2100 is now no longer pingable. After rebooting with Power off/on (frontpanel switch was no longer working) no success with ping etc. Some HDD action is noticeable, no red front panel lights etc. I am afraid

Re: Thecus recovery

2009-09-23 Thread John Winters
Markus Ulbricht wrote: [snip] So any hint to get my debian running again is very much appreciated. The way I've solved the same problem in the past is to take the HDD out of the Thecus and install it temporarily in another machine. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Etch-Lenny upgrade gone bad

2009-09-23 Thread Del Merritt
I am hoping for some help with a problem, an aptitude full-upgrade gone bad. The history: 1. Two NSLU2s (hence slugs, of course), stock (unturboed, unfat) 2. One runs Lenny, installed from the Debian installer 3. The other runs Etch, also installed from the Debian installer back in