[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2014-06-29 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/986654 Title: disk

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2014-06-29 Thread Magesh GV
The issue is seen on Ubuntu 13.04 also. Although in my case it is not a real physical machine but a VM running ubuntu. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/986654 Title: disk I/O race

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2013-11-05 Thread A. Eibach
Thanks a lot for your hard work in investigating this issue, very appreciated! I've been fighting with this IRQ problem for almost 2 years now. Same thing as you reported, those random soft resetting link messages and drive resets out of the blue. Unfortunately, no one wants to tackle this

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2013-11-05 Thread Doug Smythies
I remain of the opinion that the root issue here is a subtle timing issue. I spent a tremendous amount of time on this. I have thrashed two old PATA drives to death. Now, the most recent drive I recovered and am using does not have the issue (the drive is a little slower than the others I had

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2013-11-05 Thread Doug Smythies
I did not realize that I hadn't previously given a link to my related web notes: http://www.smythies.com/~doug/network/hd_race/index.html @andi3: you could get this bug report confirmed by clicking that this effects you also. (although I see that you did not subscribe, and myself, I don't

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2013-02-05 Thread Doug Smythies
From post #22 above: Why? The rule is for sr or removeable devices. The hard disk is an sd device. Why does the change result in issues with the hard disk? The reason is that the single udev rule change that introduced this issue, actually just created a new, and more probable, way to demonstrate

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2013-01-18 Thread Doug Smythies
Issue persists with up to date 13.04 (devlopment). Reverting the one line (see post #22) in /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules to the pre revision 2760 state fixes the issue. I went back and forth a few times. After editing the file run sudo update-initramfs -u then re- boot(and that is

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-11-20 Thread Doug Smythies
Issue persists with 13.04 (development), which is not surprising since the udev version is the same. doug@test-smy:/$ uname -a Linux test-smy 3.7.0-2-generic #8-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 15 16:21:20 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux doug@test-smy:/$ cat /proc/version Linux version 3.7.0-2-generic

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-10-16 Thread Doug Smythies
Issue persists with 12.10 and udev 175-0ubuntu13. Workaround: If not being used unplug the CD-ROM. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/986654 Title: disk I/O race condition after update

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-10-16 Thread Doug Smythies
The issue has been isolated to the single line change of launchpad revision 2760 (while revision 2761 edits the same line again, the results are the same). Specifically: in the file rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules, this line: ACTION==add, KERNEL==sr*, ATTR{events_poll_msecs}==0,

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-08-11 Thread Doug Smythies
Posting a few files that may or may not be of interest. ** Attachment added: attribute walk for HD with 175-0ubuntu9 with 2761 put to 2759 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/986654/+attachment/3256970/+files/sda2759.txt -- You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-08-11 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: attribute walk for HD with 175-ubuntu9 with 2761 put to 2760 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/986654/+attachment/3256972/+files/sda2760.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-08-11 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: attribute walk for CD drive with 175-0ubuntu9 with 2761 put to 2760 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/986654/+attachment/3256974/+files/sr02760.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-08-11 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: attribute walk for CD drive with 175-0ubuntu9 with 2761 put to 2759 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/986654/+attachment/3256973/+files/sr02759.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-08-11 Thread Doug Smythies
Basically this diff file shows stuff as expected. These tests were all done with packages built that were basically 175-0ubuntu9 but with Launchpad revision number 2761 taken out and either 2759 or 2760 put back. (for whatever reason 9.1 was not available yet). Summary: the one line change

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-08-08 Thread Doug Smythies
I wrote a program to help demonstrate the issue. It is now my preferred method of test. Finally, I have been able to compile and make the .debs that I was missing. Now the issue has been isolated as having being introduced in udev 175-0ubuntu7. It seems most likely to have been introduced with

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-08-08 Thread Doug Smythies
** Tags removed: bot-comment kernel-bug-exists-upstream -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/986654 Title: disk I/O race condition after update To manage notifications about this bug go

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-08-06 Thread Doug Smythies
The new udev, 175-0ubuntu9.1, does not fix this problem. I have not been able to compile udev yet to be able to isolate things further. I have been using http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/ as a reference. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-05-02 Thread Doug Smythies
This issue has been isolated down to the udev package. Using udev 175-0ubuntu6 the disk I/O is fine Using udev 175-0ubuntu9 the intensive disk bashing test fails. The test has been repeated now a few times of starting from a fesh installation of the 2012.03.27 ISO, verifying things work

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-05-02 Thread Joseph Salisbury
** Package changed: linux (Ubuntu) = udev (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu) Importance: Medium = Undecided ** Changed in: udev (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed = New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-04-25 Thread Doug Smythies
As mentioned in the original bug report, everything works fine starting from a fresh installation of the 2012.03.27 ISO. This includes with any kernel. Once sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade are done, then any and every kernel shows this issue. Starting from a fresh install of the

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-04-25 Thread Doug Smythies
The error even of posting 11 above was during re-boot and not during the disk thrashing test as I originally thought. I have not seen the error during re-boot before. ** Attachment added: part of kern.log for disk issue during re-boot

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-04-23 Thread Joseph Salisbury
Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v3.4kernel[1] (Not a kernel in the daily directory). Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag(Only that

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-04-23 Thread Doug Smythies
In my original posting, I did not mention that I had also tested a bunnch of mainline kernels, and always had this issue. I tested 3.4RC4 this morning, and it has the issue of the bug posting. The edited kern.log file is attached. Even if the issue did not appear with kernel 3.4RC4, I would be

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-04-22 Thread Doug Smythies
My best guess is that this should be package=linux I do see acticity for ata_piix.c around the right time frame, but I cann't find the dated change history for the file. ** Package changed: ubuntu = linux (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-04-22 Thread Brad Figg
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[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-04-21 Thread Doug Smythies
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[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-04-21 Thread Doug Smythies
For these two lines in the edited kern.log.txt file: Apr 20 23:49:33 test-smy kernel: [ 4662.839710] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 303994203 ns) Apr 20 23:49:33 test-smy kernel: [ 4662.841953] Switching to clocksource pit I do not think the clock was actually unstable. I think it got out of

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-04-21 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: Package differences edited -remove obvious not related ones. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/986654/+attachment/3097773/+files/pkg_diff_edit.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-04-21 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: Package differences - unedited (in case I removed something that matters earlier) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/986654/+attachment/3097774/+files/pkg_diff.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-04-21 Thread Doug Smythies
I made a mistake with the version in my orignal posting above. The listed versions were as the system was running, and tested, at at the time of writing this bug report. The actual conditions for most of the testing and attachments were with the original kernel from the 2012.03.27 ISO or: Linux

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-04-21 Thread Doug Smythies
** Attachment added: output from sudo lspci -vnvn as suggested in notes https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/986654/+attachment/309/+files/lspci.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 986654] Re: disk I/O race condition after update

2012-04-21 Thread Doug Smythies
Believe me, I have been trying to figure out the proper package to relate this bug to. For two reasons: First, for proper filing of this bug; Second, so that I can investigate further myself. I also can not get apport-collect 986654 to work because the computer is a server only, and it seems to