"xfs_log_force: error 5 returned." for drive that was removed.

Joe Wendt joe at wendtwerks.com
Wed May 4 10:48:13 CDT 2016


Thanks for the reply, and I'm sorry for the delay. Another admin rebooted
the server before I had a chance to collect more info. I'll take a look at
the other thread in case it comes up again. I think we'll avoid the
lazy-unmount in the future though.

Thanks again!
-Joe

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 09:33:27AM -0500, Joe Wendt wrote:
> >    Hello! This may be a silly question or an interesting one...
> >    We had a drive fail in a production server, which spawned this error
> in
> >    the logs:
> >    XFS (sde1): xfs_log_force: error 5 returned.
> >    The dead array was lazy-unmounted, and the drive was hot-swapped, but
> >    when the RAID array was rebuilt, it came online as /dev/sdk instead of
> >    /dev/sde.
> >    Now /dev/sde1 doesn't exist in the system, but we still see this
> >    message every 30 seconds. I'm assuming a reboot will clear out
> whatever
> >    is still trying to access sde1, but I'm trying to avoid that if
> >    possible. Could someone point me in the direction of what XFS might
> >    still be trying to do with that device?
> >    lsof hasn't given me any clues. I can't run xfs_repair on a volume
> that
> >    isn't there. I haven't been able to find anything similar yet online.
> >    Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> >    Thanks,
> >    Joe
>
> I believe this is the same problem being discussed in this thread:
>
> XFS hung task in xfs_ail_push_all_sync() when unmounting FS after disk
> failure/recovery.
>
> Can you get a stack dump of the system (sysrq-t) and post it in some
> pastebin?
>
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