Bug#549530: mdadm: checkarray caused machine lockup

2009-10-04 Thread Christian Pernegger
The behaviour is reproducible. Running checkarray --all always hangs the box after some time with the symptoms described. That's true even in single user mode with no other accesses. I will now check if checking (no pun intended) the arrays serially works. As this looks more like a kernel bug in

Bug#549530: mdadm: checkarray caused machine lockup

2009-10-03 Thread Christian Pernegger
Package: mdadm Version: 2.6.7.2-3 Severity: normal Tonight's checkarray triggered a slew of SATA errors, which finally caused the machine to lock up completely (see attached syslog). Possibly the hardware is flakey, but then I've been stressing it a lot in the last few weeks without any