This is the same issue Steve Cameron just now came and visited me about. If you remember, this was found on a few customer systems running Debian using a 3.x kernel. Steve and I found the cause and the fix was implemented in InfoManager 6.0.14.0 which ultimately got included in the 9.0.13.0 apps release. However, 9.x apps builds have yet to be released publicly until SNAP 1 is wrapped up.
Looks like the version 8.75-x is too early to realize the fix but rest assured that the problem has been addressed. -Steve D From: Kilcoyne, William Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 10:13 AM To: Miller, Mike (OS Dev); Ben Hutchings; Takimoto, Javier Cc: scame...@beardog.cce.hp.com; 644...@bugs.debian.org; Jonathan Nieder; ISS StorageDev; leo weppelman; Davis, Steven (ISS-Hou); Haselden, Michael Subject: RE: Bug#644362: linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae: hpacucli hangs when creating disks on cciss Mike/Steve C/all, Our code does have logic regarding kernel versions as Steve C mentioned. I have my devs looking into if they have already addressed these concerns. From: Miller, Mike (OS Dev) Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 9:47 AM To: Ben Hutchings Cc: scame...@beardog.cce.hp.com; 644...@bugs.debian.org; Jonathan Nieder; ISS StorageDev; leo weppelman; Kilcoyne, William Subject: Re: Bug#644362: linux-image-2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae: hpacucli hangs when creating disks on cciss On 10/06/2011 09:35 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 08:03 -0500, scame...@beardog.cce.hp.com<mailto:scame...@beardog.cce.hp.com> wrote: On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 01:55:37AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: leo weppelman wrote[1]: I tried to reproduce the problem with 3.1.0-rc7-686-pae from experimental as you requested, but I failed. The problem is that hpacucli does not find any controllers with this kernel :-( I used the latest available hpacucli version (8.75-12.0). This version definitely works with 2.6.39. I tried strace-ing hpacucli but that didn't give me any clues. It was looking for /dev/cciss/c0d0/cciss, which is weird and might indicate that the 3.1 environment makes the hpacucli device search fail.... Weird. Stephen et al: any ideas? Yeah I suspect I know what's going on. There was some code in hpaaculi which was asking the question "Is this a 2.4 kernel? Or is this a 2.6 kernel?" It didn't consider the possibility of a 3.x kernel, and in the face of a 3.x kernel, it just kind of gave up. Pretty sure this bug is fixed in a released version of hpacucli because rhel6.1 uses a 3.x kernel, and I know we support that. Bill Kilcoyne might know the specifics. RHEL 6 will be sticking with what is nominally version 2.6.32, although RH continues to backport large changes from later versions. The first stable distribution with a 3.x kernel will presumably be Ubuntu 11.10 'oneiric'. Stable update 3.0.4 added a process personality flag that causes the kernel to report version numbers beginning '2.6.', and the 'setarch' command in util-linux has been updated to allow setting this flag. However. neither Debian nor Ubuntu has this new version of util-linux yet. Ben. It's sles11 sp2 that uses a 3.0.x kernel. -- mikem