Re: Hangs during filesystem recovery on mount (was: kernel panic "killing interrupt handler" and kernel BUG at sched.c:468)

[Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This sounds very much like my problem from a few weeks ago. 



On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 20:35, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > After another reboot I did an xfs_check on the yet-unrecovered
> > /dev/sda10 and I did not get any messages. An attempt to mount it
> > succeeded. I unmounted /dev/sda10 and did another xfs_check and
> again I
> > did not get any messages, which from the manual page I've
> interpreted as
> > "clean". Because /dev/sda10 was finally unmounted properly the next
> > reboot worked and our server is back online.
> 
> Odd.  Just to make sure I read everything right - xfs itself was
> hanging
> in recovery, and your oopses came from when you tried to sync with
> SysRq?
> 
> And then it sounds like the only thing you did before the mount was
> ultimately successful, was to run xfs_check... which should be a
> read-only
> test, and should not have changed anything about the fs, as far as I
> know.
> 
> I think the most helpful thing (in retrospect) would have been to
> break into kdb, and see where mount was stuck during recovery.
> 
> I'm not sure what to make of this problem...
> 
> -Eric
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Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Coremetrics, Inc.