Dear bacula users, I am running bacula-mysql 2.2.5 (rpm from sourceforge) on a SuSE SLES 10SP1 machine, kernel version 2.6.16 (SMP).
I configured and mounted tape drive via iSCSI. I can tar from and to this drive without problems. I can label a tape with btape, read this label without problems. But immediatly after writing a few blocks using qfill or wr the machine stops working. One of my write attempts left a kernel panic message in /var/log/messages: Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: Bad page state in process 'btape' Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: page:c16cce40 flags:0x80000000 mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:1 Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: Backtrace: Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: [<c0149955>] bad_page+0x42/0x68 Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: [<c0149dbd>] __free_pages_ok+0x55/0xe4 Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: [<f906e0bb>] normalize_buffer+0x31/0x63 [st] Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: [<f9070492>] st_release+0x1e/0x45 [st] Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: [<c01613d5>] __fput+0xa1/0x167 Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: [<c015ed5d>] filp_close+0x4e/0x54 Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: [<c0103bdb>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x79 Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: Bad page state in process 'btape' Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: page:c16cce60 flags:0x80000080 mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:1 Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: Backtrace: Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: [<c0149955>] bad_page+0x42/0x68 Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: [<c0149dbd>] __free_pages_ok+0x55/0xe4 Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: [<f906e0bb>] normalize_buffer+0x31/0x63 [st] Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: [<f9070492>] st_release+0x1e/0x45 [st] Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: [<c01613d5>] __fput+0xa1/0x167 Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: [<c015ed5d>] filp_close+0x4e/0x54 Oct 24 13:28:26 bacula kernel: [<c0103bdb>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x79 So this seems to be a kernel bug. Googling lead me to http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17890.html but this didn't help too much ... My question is: What is the difference between the tape write actions of tar and btape? Maybe I will be able to configure the tape device so that btape doesn't run in kernel panics any more? -- Regards Christoph ________________________________________________________________________ Christoph Litauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Uni Koblenz, Computing Center, http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~litauer Postfach 201602, 56016 Koblenz Fon: +49 261 287-1311, Fax: -100 1311 PGP-Fingerprint: F39C E314 2650 650D 8092 9514 3A56 FBD8 79E3 27B2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
