[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-08 Thread DanielV
@Luke: yes the files that were moved that caused the computer to freeze were on the same volume. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-08 Thread Ulrich Hobelmann
@Luke, you're probably right, if even a single rm can freeze the system. I guess some data is always being moved around... When the bug is fixed, I'll see if I still get freezes. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 Y

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-09 Thread iamringo
@Ulrich...I know this has been mentioned before, but you could try out one of the karmic kernels and see if you still have problems...if you are, then you can be fairly sure your problems aren't related -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-11 Thread vaibhav mishra
I installed the karmic kernel (using kernelcheck) ,and rebooted, no system freezes though but as a side-effect my wireless stopped working, I am on Jaunty with broadcomm b43 wireless, the lid didn't go on, as if thre is no wireless , System>Administration>Hardware drivers show that driver is deact

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-11 Thread vaibhav mishra
update: now hardware drivers say , broadcom wireless is activated but still it is not working. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-07 Thread Ulrich Hobelmann
This problem definitely IS NOT LIMITED to deletion, as most comments seem to indicate. First I only had it sometimes when emptying my trash (with a few roughly 1GB files), but after a reboot the trash was empty, so it seems that the freeze occurred after syncing the disk / completing the operation

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-07 Thread DanielV
You are correct. I have this problem when my newsreader program MOVES data from the temporary folder to the download folder. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a mem

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-08 Thread Luke Maurer
@Ulrich: Are you sure none of those operations involved deleting files? The usual symptom is that the system hangs *after* the rm is successful, so that's not out of character. SVN does some amount of file-based locking, IIUC, which means at some point it has to rm the lock file. Creating a tarball

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-08 Thread Scott S
I am using jaunty 64 bit. I formated using ext4 on 320 gig hard drive. It hangs when moving files from NTFS usb drive that I used for backup. It also tells me the trash can is full. I changed the trash can to 50% or 107 gigs. It should not have been full. I also states the files are to large to

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-08 Thread DanielV
@Luke: yes the files that were moved that caused the computer to freeze were on the same volume. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-08 Thread Ulrich Hobelmann
@Luke, you're probably right, if even a single rm can freeze the system. I guess some data is always being moved around... When the bug is fixed, I'll see if I still get freezes. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 Y

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-09 Thread iamringo
@Ulrich...I know this has been mentioned before, but you could try out one of the karmic kernels and see if you still have problems...if you are, then you can be fairly sure your problems aren't related -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-13 Thread PsychedEric
Maybe I am wrong : so take it just as a suggestion, Maybe the bug is in gvfs or Maybe it is a conflict between gvfs and ext4 -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a m

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-14 Thread getaceres
It's not related to gvfs because I'm having it in KDE too. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bug

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-17 Thread Theodore Ts'o
As an idea; for people who can reproduce it easily, preferably one of you who have been doing this on a relatively small (20-40GB filesystem), maybe you would be willing to do the following? (a) Load up the filesystem with the test set of files that, when deleted, will product the hang. (b) Run

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-18 Thread Andrius Štikonas
I plugged my hard drive to another computer with 6GB RAM (instead of 640MB) and was not able to reproduce this bug at all neither with my usual methods nor with hang.py. I can always easilly reproduce the bug on 640MB machine in a few seconds. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ex

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-19 Thread Alessandro Rinaldi
It happened really often to me with 2.6.28.x kernel, and now it doesn't happen at all (tried everything to reproduce, but I couldn't) with a 2.6.29-1 kernel, and also the 2.6.29 kernel is ok. So we should just find the right patch that fixed it and apply to the current kernel. -- Soft lockups

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-20 Thread Carey Underwood
Alessandro, please make a point of reading all the comments on a bug before adding your own. :) -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-06 Thread Luke Maurer
On Sun, 2009-07-05 at 23:32 +, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > We might have a break in this bug. For those people who can reliably > reproduce the problem, are you using ecryptfs, possibly extensively? I've been able to reproduce it 100% reliably (rm a single file => crashy crashy) just in the Jaunty

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-07 Thread Roland Dreier
Luke Maurer wrote: > I've been able to reproduce it 100% reliably (rm a single file => crashy > crashy) just in the Jaunty > LiveCD environment. AFAIK, the most exotic filesystem hackery it uses is that > union filesystem, > though I was crashing on deleting something on a separate, non-unionized

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-08 Thread Martin Pitt
Accepted linux into jaunty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance! ** Tags added: verification-needed -- S

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-08 Thread martinm1000
I can also reproduce this bug easily, but I never tried EnabledProposed; Where can I find the new kernel in aptitude text mode ? -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-09 Thread Jared Heath
Just started using Ubuntu and I had to go looking for why the server constantly locked on rm commands. This happens pretty much 100% of the time in my ext4 filesystems that are large (100gb 60%+ full). I cannot delete more than 20-30 files before it hangs. I also was able to go up to 2.6.29 and

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-10 Thread TiGR
I have installed new 2.6.28-14 from jaunty-proposed and switched to it from 2.6.29. Today I had another lockup during intensive disk usage. This fix does not work for me. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You receiv

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-10 Thread James78
I have all the latest upgraded drivers, kernel, etc. Using a native ext4 partition, Jaunty w/latest KDE. Freezes and locks up the system almost every single time I empty the trash or delete certain items via Dolphin. Noticed this problem about 5 days ago, never seemed to be evident before then. I t

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-12 Thread martinm1000
This fix seems to be working for me; didn't have a crash since. That was not easy to install, but I managed... -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-13 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Installed linux-image-2.6.28-14-generic 2.6.28-14.46 from jaunty- proposed. Ran hang.py, and still obtained a soft lockup. Doesn't seem like the update fixes this problem. So I guess Theodore Tso was right in pointing out above that this might not be the correct fix. (Note that for me 2.6.29-020629

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-13 Thread martinm1000
I am on .28-14; I Didn't know about the python script; I'll try it after work. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-13 Thread Franz Dietzmann
I just read through all the comments (I hope), and did not find this mentioned, so I thought it might be helpful.. I had the problem for a long time, but didn't bother too much. Now it got annoying and after some searching I installed mainline 2.6.30 to see if it would work. As has been mentione

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-13 Thread Franz Dietzmann
I highly doubt that it had something to do with permissions, as there were really all kinds of files (audio, video, documents..) from different sources (downloads, self-made..). I didn't mean this to be a cause of the bug, but rather a result and maybe an indicator to where things might be going w

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-13 Thread martinm1000
Yep, I crashed using hang.py : Linux lantea 2.6.28-14-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 8 07:21:34 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 ext4 90G 76G 9.9G 89% / Didn't crash with 10GB of 100GB. /dev/sda5 ext4 90G 82G 4.2G 9

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-15 Thread Luke Maurer
Huh. My system's also a single-core Athlon 64, and I'm getting it even worse (a single "rm" hangs). Is it possible that this is a race condition that's *more* likely on a single-core box? Seems like we've exhausted every other theory :-) -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 par

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-16 Thread Jared Heath
It happened very frequently on my Dual Core i86 based system (never got more than 5 single rm commands off without a hang before I went to the higher kernel) so it certanly can happen on multi-core systems often. Your theory on race conditions is interesting though--it certainly exhibits the behav

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-16 Thread martinm1000
I'm going to reboot, after installing 2.6.30 + newer (185.18.14) NVidia drivers see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-common/+bug/384639/comments/8 to do it with NVidia working ;-) Hoping this will solve the crash problem. I would suggest to others to try the same, since the probl

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-17 Thread Borph
Full acknowledgement! For me, I installed Kubuntu Jaunty fresh with native ext4 and external backup drive, also ext4. Actually it was because of a system crash in which I lost my complete partition. So I want to have the backup-system working now before I proceed! But I was stuck because of this e

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-07-17 Thread JoseStefan
I've also been using the Karmic kernels on Jaunty (and the new nvidia drivers) as suggested by martinm1000. Unfortunately, it seems to require also updating the graphics drivers, in my case nvidia. I've applied this temporary fix a while back, seeing this is taking too long to fix. I also vote for

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-29 Thread Derek
Hey guys. Just wondering. This recent ext4 fix looks hopeful (typo correction). http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/19495/ Found while been browsing for potential fixes in ext4. Does anyone know if it is in a Jaunty backport? -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-29 Thread Tim Gardner
@Derek - that patch is already in Jaunty. static void ext4_mb_add_n_trim(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac) ... list_for_each_entry_rcu(tmp_pa, &lg->lg_prealloc_list[order], pa_inode_list) { spin_lock(&tmp_pa->pa_lock);

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-30 Thread Phil-S
Just found this report after a number of forced reboots, Chiming in with another verification. Running Stock Jaunty: 2.6.28-11-generic (bui...@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009 Have a 3TB 4-drive software RAID-5 array with EXT4. Hang

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-30 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Phil, The only suggestion I can make at this point is to use a mainline kernel. This seems to be some kind of interaction between Ubuntu "Sauce" patches and the ext4 code. People have reported success with stock 2.6.28, stock 2.6.29 and a bleeding-edge 2.6.30-rcX kernels. There have been attempt

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-30 Thread Derek
A bit more info on my circumstance. 1) I triggered the lockup at one point by running Evolution - no idea what it was doing in the background 2) I was trying to figure out why subversion was giving me an assertion on a particular samba mounted file:// repo. (this has been going on for a while, i

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-30 Thread Christian Kirbach
I think I am bitten by this, too, on AMD64, with a root fs converted from ext3 to ext4 using tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index /dev/DEV linux-image-2. 2.6.28-11.42 I have not found a way yet to trigger, "rm -rf" on ten thousand files once did not. On an irregular basis I can see any app do

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-01 Thread Derek
I've switched to: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc4/ (and previously rc3) So far, so good, on both machines using ext4, despite still plenty of rm -rf. here's hoping... -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-01 Thread Geoff123
I also just triggered a crash using the hang.py script from this forum. I just just switched to ext4 and had to try. I have two observations someone might find useful. 1) Running as normal user. Ran hang.py and it locked up on the 5th round. I had to push the reset button. Note that th

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-02 Thread Saïvann Carignan
According to last Theodore Ts'o comment, I am bisecting ubuntu-jaunty git branch and the result so far are very positive. If everything goes well, I will be able to reveal exactly which commit caused the bug in a few. 65 commit left to test. 4 good commits identified, 2 bad commits identified. The

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-02 Thread Saïvann Carignan
My git bisect is finished and revealed that commit dbf8b1c4e8122e705447b69aea9ee6ef3a9caa30 is the faulty one, confirming Carey Underwood previous results. Bisect log attached and commit diff attached. Trying to revert that whole patch in current jaunty kernel makes it FTBFS so I could not test re

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-02 Thread Saïvann Carignan
** Attachment added: "dbf8b1c4e8122e705447b69aea9ee6ef3a9caa30" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26269859/dbf8b1c4e8122e705447b69aea9ee6ef3a9caa30 -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notificati

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-03 Thread Aurius Bendikas
Also installed http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/v2.6.30-rc4/. No freezes so far. At last I can work with my workstation. @Derek - THANK YOU for the post! -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You receive

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-03 Thread pritam ghanghas
Just increasing the counter of people affected. I have faced system freeze 4 times since I upgraded my file system to ext4. luckily my "/" fs is not on ext4. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug n

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-03 Thread _dan_
This issue is *not* fixed in current jaunty. Deleting files will not freeze your machine at once or so often anymore. But it still happens once a day approximately 1-3 seconds after the deleting is done, system just freezes. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-03 Thread Pauli Virtanen
@Tim Gardner on 2009-04-30: > @Derek - that patch is already in Jaunty. > > static void ext4_mb_add_n_trim(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac) > ... > list_for_each_entry_rcu(tmp_pa, &lg->lg_prealloc_list[order], > pa_inode_list) { >

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-03 Thread Carey Underwood
** Description changed: + [ + Please read *all* previous comments before posting. + + Mainline kernels are known to not experience this bug, although in + general are not supported (i.e., using one is a workaround, but if they + break other things you're generally out of luck). + + Additional "m

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-03 Thread Tim Gardner
@Ted - Pauli's observation is correct. I was comparing Jaunty against 2.6.28.9 fs/ext4/mballoc.c. They are indeed the same wrt the code in ext4_mb_add_n_trim(). However, Linus' tree has commit e7c9e3e99adf6c49c5d593a51375916acc039d1e which was Cc sta...@kernel.org, and corrects the spin_unlock() ty

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-03 Thread Tim Gardner
Test kernels in http:/kernel.ubuntu.com/~rtg/2.6.28-13.44-lp330824 contain stable updates through 2.6.28.10 as well as the aforementioned missing commit e7c9e3e99adf6c49c5d593a51375916acc039d1e from Linus' tree. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-03 Thread Theodore Ts'o
@Tim: I would be delighted if commit e7c9e3e9 fixes this bug. However, this fix was added after 2.6.29 was released (it was pushed to Linus between during the 2.6.29..2.6.29-rc1 merge window), and Ubuntu users have reported that using the 2.6.29 stock kernel was enough to avoid the rm -rf hang p

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-03 Thread Saïvann Carignan
The bug can be reproduced with Tim Gardner test kernels http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~rtg/2.6.28-13.44-lp330824 -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bug

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-03 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Saïvann, Thank you very much for doing the bisect and confirming Carey's results. The problem with this is that the commit that you figured as causing the problem, dbf8b1c4, is identical to commit 82eb4869, which appeared in 2.6.28.7, and commit 920313a7, which appeared in 2.6.29-rc1, and so was i

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-03 Thread Eric Shattow
Confirm that 2.6.28-11.42 had the problem. I was able to reproduce the issue 5 or more times by issuing 'rm -fr dirname' on an 80gb directory hierarchy of files up to 5gb each. The system soft locked just like the reported bug symptoms. Booting 2.6.30-020630rc4 resolves the issue for me and 'rm -fr

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-03 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Theodore : I built and tested your branch : git://github.com/tytso/ext4.git and the bad news is : no crash. I was able to delete my whole filesystem and the problem was not reproducible when it always takes 2 seconds for the bug to appear. However the good news is that I'm ready to take a lot mor

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-04 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Saïvann, Thanks for your willingness to work on this. >However the good news is that I'm ready to take a lot more time on this. If it >requires me to >git bisect again the whole jaunty kernel and to apply commit dbf8b1c4 each >time I test one >commit, I'm ready to do it. If you can only guide m

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Nicholas Roberts
I have resisted posting because 'me too' is not helpful. However, I am operating two very different machines (no two pieces of hardware the same) with the same operating system (Jaunty [ext4] with all the latest updates). Both machines exhibit the same 'freezing' problem on deleting files and the e

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread _dan_
I dont want to be rude but the "its your own fault, dont use it attitude" does not help anyone. I am pretty sure everyone knows they can use ext3, thats not the point of a bugreport tho. If Ubuntu ships with ext4 supoort it should work period. In this current state its almost unusable. -- Soft

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Nicholas Roberts
Regarding Øyvind's wise words... I completely agree Øyvind and you are right sir. That said, there are an awful lot of people (like me) who have opted for ext4 believing that any major bugs would be sorted in the usual timely fashion that we have come to enjoy from the Ubuntu community. I think in

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Andri
I realize that I'm just adding to the problem, but... Please conduct these discussions somewhere else. There are a lot of people subscribed to this thread, not because they want to discuss it, but probably because they are waiting for a fix to be released. So at a risk of being rude; please restri

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread jagnet
Well said Andri. Now back to the bug. I have been running 2 entirely different servers with the desktop version of 9.10 for 3 weeks now with EXT3 and other with EXT4. In 8.10 and 9.04 Ubuntu froze as described above when I deleted large numbers of files. Or indeed when any software deleted anyth

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Another possibility is to use the Karmic kernel but keep a Jaunty userspace. I haven't tried this myself, but I suspect it is highly likely to work. As far as people complaining --- please note that (a) Ubuntu has not made this the default, and (b) when I talked to the Canonical kernel team, the

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Theodore Ts'o
P.S. There is a known ext4 file system corruption bug which is fixed in the 2.6.30 mainline kernel and in 2.6.29.5. It was found after the stable kernel series stopped updating for 2.6.28, but I do carry a fix for it in my for-stable-2.6.28 branch of the ext4 git tree, located here: git

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Ulrich Hobelmann
FWIW, I've installed a kernel from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/v2.6.30/ and I haven't had any problems since then. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-19 Thread Leann Ogasawara
Hi Ted, I've opened bug 389555, https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/linux/+bug/389555, to track the issue you mentioned in comment https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/330824/comments/191 . Thanks. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 pa

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread Jason Waddle
I registered just to say that I have been seriously affected by this bug, and it certainly deserves more than the "medium" designation. Single core, ~1GHz processor, would deadlock consistently on rm -rf'ing a directory of photos (~4MB each, thousands of them) using the stock ubuntu kernel 2.6.28-1

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread moli
Thank you Jason Waddle, i've updated my console-only server to 2.6.30 and succeed deleting 35494 files from an ext4 device in ~45 seconds without freezing. Help for the update: http://www.ramoonus.nl/2009/06/10/linux-kernel-2-6-30-installation-guide-for-ubuntu-and-debian-linux/ http://kernel.ubunt

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Moreover, that comment came after the poster updated a "console only" server :) -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ub

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Sorry for multiple pollution of the bug report but I got things wrong. And in fact a warning to the installer would be a nice addition, however the release notes are clear on the ext4 bugs. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread Jason Waddle
I want to apologize for my last comment. I really like having a free operating system and all the free software, and I love the people who volunteer their time putting it all together and making it work as well as it does (thank you!). I was in a bit of a mood after messing with this thing all ni

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-20 Thread JoseStefan
This bug doesn't seem to trigger on ext3 file systems mounted as ext4. Can anyone confirm? Maybe we can pinpoint which of the new ext4 attributes are needed to trigger the bug? -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-05 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Theodore Ts'o : That's excellent, I'm going to start bisecting today. Thanks! -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubun

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-07 Thread unggnu
I can confirm this. The easiest way to reproduce it is to run bonnie++ without options on an ext4 device. It freezes the system every time for me on a laptop and in a virtual machine. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-08 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Theodore Ts'o : As I'm not a expert with git, my previous results were wrong because I tested the "master" branch of git://github.com/tytso/ext4.git instead of the "ubuntu-330824-test" branch (shame on me). So I cloned your current git repository, checkout to branch "ubuntu-330824-test", then check

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-05-08 Thread Saïvann Carignan
Theodore Ts'o : I found that there is not 10 but 9 ubuntu SAUCE commits in your branch. commit "18fde579ee7e5895a802e9e04a38c26f4c0ed351" is the one I identified being the bad one earlier. For each 8 others, I built the kernel with the specific SAUCE patch reverted and tested if the bug was reprodu

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-11 Thread vaibhav mishra
I installed the karmic kernel (using kernelcheck) ,and rebooted, no system freezes though but as a side-effect my wireless stopped working, I am on Jaunty with broadcomm b43 wireless, the lid didn't go on, as if thre is no wireless , System>Administration>Hardware drivers show that driver is deact

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-11 Thread vaibhav mishra
update: now hardware drivers say , broadcom wireless is activated but still it is not working. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is s

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-06-14 Thread Åskar
@vaibhav mishra; you should open a new report about the issue with your wireless broadcom. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-03-18 Thread Pauli Virtanen
Confirm that similar regular freezing occurs only on my machine, with ext4 FS converted from ext3. Typically the freeze occurs under high disk activity; I believe when the freeze has happened, I have had a rsync job traversing whole /home, which contains a large number of small files. I managed to

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-03-15 Thread dnyaga
** Summary changed: - ext4 or 2.6.28 is completely freeze my system + Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification b

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-03-15 Thread Agent N2O
It looks like the converted vs native ext4 filesystem info I gave earlier was a RED HERRING! I just got another system freeze deleting files off my EXT4 partition that I had reformatted (using mkfs.ext4) yesterday. I have just dropped down to a root shell on the recovery mode to see if I can figure

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-03-15 Thread Agent N2O
Well, I could not reproduce the latest system freeze. Certainly the frequency of the system freezing from EXT4 deletes is much, much lower on this new native EXT4 partition as opposed to the converted version. I am going to do some more spring cleaning to see if it will freeze up again. -- Soft l

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-03-15 Thread Agent N2O
3 more nautilus delete freezes to report (all from same "native" EXT4 partition): 1. deleted a folder with a bunch of video files totalling 7.5 GB 2. deleted 16 folders and files totalling 1.1 GB 3. deleted 6 folder and files totalling 1.6 GB In all 3 cases it froze immediately after I said yes t

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-03-16 Thread dnyaga
just had another freeze. I was deleting a virtual machine snapshot (relatively large file). when I rebooted, I was able to finish deleting. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification becaus

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-03-16 Thread dnyaga
The freezes I initially reported occurred when I was moving large folders between ext4 partitions (moves between partitions involve deletes). When I am doing this kind of re-organizing, I usually have several move operations going on concurrently. Could it be that the bug is triggered more easily w

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-03-22 Thread yaztromo
Posting to confirm same bug. Happens when emptying lots of files from the recycle bin, or doing a big rm -r * Message is something like "BUG: soft locking - CPU#0 stuck for 61s!" Xubuntu 9.04 and ext4 file system -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-03-22 Thread yaztromo
I should add that my file system is new and not a convert from ext3. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-03-25 Thread davidnottingham
Have experienced this on a daily basis, whenever I try empty the Trash folder. There are several large files in the Trash. This is on a x86_64 system running Ubuntu, and as mentioned above, under gnome and via the comand line (using rm -rf) -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-03-25 Thread Xavier Fung
Same thing happened to me when I use kdesvn-build to build KDE SVN. Usually it truncates the .svn/entries file just like what has been reported before: kde-de...@xavier:~$ cd kdesvn/kdesupport kde-de...@xavier:~/kdesvn/kdesupport$ svn up svn: Working copy '.' locked svn: run 'svn cleanup' to remov

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-03-26 Thread Eric Sandeen
When it freezes, attaching the output of sysrq-w, either via # echo w > /proc/sysrq-trigger # dmesg > dmesg.txt or doing the keyboard combination, would probably be helpful for getting to the bottom of what appears to be a deadlock. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partit

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-13 Thread Tim Gardner
Its possible this bug is related to LP 348836. Can you guys try the kernel referenced in https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/348836/comments/7 ? -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received t

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-13 Thread Wade Menard
I may now jinx myself but the patch in that build does appear to fix the issue -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-13 Thread Theodore Ts'o
I will be very happy if this patch fixes the issue --- however, I'll note that this patch showed up in mainline shortly after 2.6.28-rc8, and it doesn't explain the reports from people who said they were not able to reproduce the problem using a stock 2.6.28 or 2.6.29-rc1 kernel. Anyway, if more p

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-13 Thread Saïvann Carignan
I installed the kernel package pointed by Tim Gardner (http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~rtg/2.6.28-lp348836/linux- image-2.6.28-11-generic_2.6.28-11.42_i386.deb), rebooted my computer and I was still able to reproduce the freeze after 3 seconds. So unfortunately, does not seem to be fixed here. -- Soft

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-14 Thread Wade Menard
I'm now at a 21 hour uptime doing many things that would trigger the lockups for me pretty consistently under the main ubuntu kernel... compiling and clobbering large source trees, emptying trash, clearing application caches, etc. I have also experienced the issue mentioned in bug 348836 before as

[Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

2009-04-14 Thread Tim Gardner
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Jaunty) Importance: Medium Assignee: Tim Gardner (timg-tpi) Status: In Progress -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a me

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