Hello,
two weeks ago I tried to upgrade the command rpms on a small server in
my institute but during rpm -Fvh the machine crashed. Afterwards I
couldn't boot anymore because of severe errors on the root partition.
I couldn't repair the partition in single user mode because the
fileutils especially xfs_repair were completly broken. So I booted
from the 1.0.1 install cd and repaired the partition and used
xfs_repair several times. Afterwards I replaced all files from the
command rpms with the manually extracted files from the new rpms which
I tried to upgrade.
These are the now by rpm -qa reported versions of the command rpms:
xfsprogs-devel-1.2.7-0
xfsprogs-1.3.1-pre1
xfsdump-1.0.11-0
acl-1.0.8-0
acl-devel-1.0.8-0
layout of the partitions:
pc16154:[] #mount
/dev/hda2 on / type xfs (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda8 on /home type ext2 (rw)
/dev/hda9 on /home/data type xfs (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /usr/local type xfs (rw)
/dev/hda6 on /var type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
hardware is:
AMD K6-2 500 MHz on a Gigabyte GA-5AA Board
196 MB Ram
Ati Mach64 PCI
IBM DTLA 305040 HD
3C590
Teles 16.3 ISDN card
But the problem with the partition didn't vanish completly but instead
I got some really strange errors. Every two or three days some files
on that partition were missing and every time I had to boot to single
user mode run xfs_repair and then I could copy over the missing files.
But today I got several kernel oops during normal operation and I
couldn't copy the files over as fast as they disapeared. After copying
the missing files sometimes the affected files show up two or three
times in the directory when using ls!
I've attached a file with the output of ls -il in two of the affected
directories.
When the first crash during the update of the command rpms happend,
the kernel was 2.4.6 with the non-cvs xfs-patch for this version. Last
week I updated the kernel to 2.4.8-pre4 cause I had the hope to get
away with the filesystem trouble:
Linux pc16154.pharmazie.uni-marburg.de 2.4.8-pre4-xfs #1 Die Aug 7
17:06:15 CEST 2001 i586 unknown
If you wonder why I havn't reinstalled the machine already that's
because I didn't have time to do it 'till now. But since today the
problem have become so serious that I have to reinstall the machine
tomorrow morning (CEST). If someone wants more information I will be
happy to collect as many informations as possible before I start. I
will not use xfs on that machine again because I need ADSM backup and
don't want to get by the backup trouble by remounting the xfs
partitions via nfs or any other shoot-in-your-feet solution.
Greetings from Germany
Dirk
P.S.: I'm still happy with xfs! ;-) I have it running on two other
machines without any hassle (but I used only the official kernel rpms
from 1.0 and 1.0.1, 2.4.2 and 2.4.5 on both) and had never any problem
with my SGI O2 in nearly five years!
P.P.S.: Should I update the command rpms in single user mode or is it
okay to do it during normal operation?
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