[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-09-20 Thread Fionn
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 571444 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571444 We had the issue with two more servers today, one of them did not have a separate /var partition. The real reason for the immediate death of the boot process was /etc/default/locale which contained the line

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-09-14 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 571444 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571444 Ah, I see. I must have misunderstood your post, sorry. It is interesting and disturbing that there seem to be so many conditions that could result in a server not booting correctly. -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-09-14 Thread Fionn
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 571444 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571444 Andreas, please note that I did not report a mount problem but (suspectedly) some sort of a race condition. Pressing 's' or 'm' did NOT help in our case either! - Presumably because ureadahead hung itself up

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-09-14 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 571444 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571444 Fionn, glad you solved your problem, but it is not this particular problem. I want to remind everyone that any kind of mounting problems have nothing to do with the issue this bug report describes, namely tha

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-09-14 Thread Fionn
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 571444 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571444 See also: bug #638228 -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576001 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-09-14 Thread Fionn
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 571444 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571444 Oh, well, for the records: We encountered this problem with linux-image-2.6.32-24-server. It seems to have been fixed by moving /var up to the top in fstab. -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-09-14 Thread Fionn
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 571444 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571444 Do you happen to have /var on a separate partition? If yes, try moving the /var entry in fstab up to the top and let us know if it helps. I suspect this has to do something with like ureadahead in initialisa

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-09-12 Thread Thomas Pedersen
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 571444 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571444 I agree with Andreas, the fstab setup we are using here, is the default, and only contains local disks. Further more I see no such error message as "mountall: Filesystem could not be mounted: ...". We still h

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-09-11 Thread Charles Auer
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 571444 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571444 Thanks for the update Andreas. Glad to hear that the 2.6.32-24 server kernel isn't causing any more problems for you. -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576001

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-09-11 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 571444 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571444 This bug is not a duplicate of #571444. At least not in the characteristic that I and others who reported here have experienced it. My /etc/fstab was always in the pristine state that is the result of a fresh

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-09-10 Thread Charles Auer
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 571444 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571444 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 571444 Boot hangs and unable to continue when automount disk in fstab is not available (Off or Disconnected) * You can subscribe to bug 571444 by following t

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-08-12 Thread Charles Auer
Thanks for the info Thomas. I wonder what the difference between the -server and the -generic kernels are that could be causing the machines to hang. -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576001 You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-08-12 Thread Thomas Pedersen
Experiences the exact same problem here, with an clean install + apt-get dist-upgrade. Seem to have problems with both the 2.6.32-21-server and 2.6.32-24-server. However using the 2.6.32-24-generic seems to work fine, as others described. The server is also the HP Proliant DL380 G6. Also have a HP

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-08-10 Thread Tom Marcoen
First I had the 2.6.32-21-generic-pae and now, after an dist-upgrade to 2.6.32-24-generic-pae the problem seems to be solved. I'll continue rebooting the server to see if it keeps coming up or crashes again. -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576001

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-08-09 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Chiming in again I am cautiously optimistic that with the latest -server packages (-23 and recently -24) the problem went away. I have installed and upgraded two identical DL380 G6 servers and performed many consecutive reboots since and have yet to experience any hangs. I just rebooted one of the

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-08-09 Thread jgreenso
Which version of the -server package do you have? And have you yet performed a dist-upgrade to get the latest -server packages? -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576001 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, whi

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-08-09 Thread Tom Marcoen
I experienced the same problem. I have an the following server configuration: HP DL380 G3 2 x Intel Xeon 2.8GHz 6GB RAM 6 x 36.4GB SCSI in a RAID5 array (no spares) I did a standard installation (checked the OpenSSH server so I installed software) and did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade. I

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-07-29 Thread Wes Janzen
I'll just add that this is also a problem for me on an HP DL380G6 on 10.04 LTS server. Typically I eventually get in after several reboots, although I'm having trouble on this last go round. -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576001 You received thi

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-07-25 Thread Charles Auer
Thanks Andreas. I've filed a bug report about the "no error message being displayed" part. Keep us updated. :-) I'm just glad I figure out why my server would appear to hang, and I hope that the problem has been fixed for you. -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.laun

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-07-25 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Charles, that's definitely a bug. I believe there have been efforts in Plymouth to fix it but you need to the splash screen for those error messages to be displayed. A default server install, or one where the kernel is instructed to boot with as much text output as possible (GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFA

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-07-25 Thread Charles Auer
Upgraded to 2.6.32-24-server after commenting out the RAID array in fstab, rebooted into the new kernel and built the drivers, then mounted the array without any problems. Is it a bug that there is no error message displayed when the OS cannot find a device listed in fstab? -- kernel 2.6.32-32 m

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-30 Thread Charles Auer
Tried the same test with Lucid Desktop i386, and the same thing happened, except that it prompted to hit "s" or "m." See attachment. I don't really want to have to comment out any entries in fstab before I upgrade the kernel, especially if I don't have physical access to the machine to hit "s" if

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-29 Thread Charles Auer
I did a clean install using the x64 version of Lucid, kernel 2.6.32-31. The only thing I did before upgrading to the new kernel (2.6.32-32) was build the drivers for my RAID card (Highpoint Technologies RocketRAID 2640x1) and added an entry to fstab to mount the array on boot. It's now sitting at

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-25 Thread jgreenso
We have USB-attached hard drives so that would add another line to fstab. Does anyone know if the -server build has behaviour changes when it comes to fstab mount points? -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576001 You received this bug notification b

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-25 Thread Charles Auer
I just stumbled across a thread that mentioned having Ubuntu hang if there is something other than /proc, / and swap were in fstab: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1480113 I don't know if that was the case for me, since I added my RAID array to fstab before I upgraded to the new kernel

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-25 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
jgreenso, I will try a -generic kernel image hopefully next week or the week after that, when I get my hands on one of the machines on which we experienced the problems. -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576001 You received this bug notification be

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-25 Thread jgreenso
I've changed the status given there's no evidence that the problem has been identified yet alone a fix released. -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576001 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribe

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-25 Thread jgreenso
Andreas, have you tried a -generic kernel build? That's what's working on our two 10.04 servers, the -server kernel causes the problem for us. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Incomplete -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bug

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-24 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Charles, I'll be trying your idea as soon as I get one of the machines back (next week probably). Maybe I can find some pattern :) But I really don't think this is in any way "fixed". All we know is that there are at least five people affected by it and no solution has been posted or linked to oth

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-23 Thread Charles Auer
Ah I see. I usually just use apt-get upgrade for regular package upgrades and dist-upgrade to get new kernels. I've not really used aptitude much, if at all. Thanks for the info on that. Only thing that I know is that it worked when I did a dist-upgrade after a clean install and without installing

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-23 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Charles, thanks for the reply. I do not use dist-upgrade for regular package upgrades. However there should not be any difference between dist-upgrade (full-upgrade) and safe-upgrade in this case. The kernel package gets updated either way. So you don't seem to see any problems even after a few co

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-23 Thread Charles Auer
Andreas: I rebooted a few times a while ago, within 30 minutes of each other, then 8 hours later without any problems. Here's my uprecords so far: char...@thor:~$ uprecords # Uptime | System Boot up +-

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-23 Thread Jeremy Foshee
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Fix Released -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576001 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing lis

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-23 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
I just want to add that I unfortunately have not been able to test this further (not even using -generic instead of -server kernels) since the machines in question needed to go into production. We went back to Ubuntu 9.10 for that. If I'm lucky I can maybe get one or two of these machines back in p

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-23 Thread Charles Auer
Jeremy, Yeah, it's completely up-to-date and has been booting fine. I just don't know why it had a problem when I went to do the kernel update when I had packages already installed. It's been up for around 48 days total (ever since May 5th, when I did the clean install and dist-upgrade) with peri

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-23 Thread Jeremy Foshee
Charles, I'm glad you were able to get it to a known good state. Are you still updating regularly. and is the machine still booting normally? Thanks! ~JFo -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576001 You received this bug notification because yo

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-22 Thread Charles Auer
Thanks for replying Jeremy. I stopped messing with the machine after doing an apt-get dist-upgrade (after a clean install) and before installing any other packages caused the problem is not occur. So far, I haven't had any other issues since then. -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during bo

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-22 Thread Jeremy Foshee
jgreenso, Apologies for the delay. Our process is to verify if there is a difference in behavior using a generic upstream build of the kernel with only minimal ubuntu configs added. This enables us to see if there is a commit from stable that resolves an issue and can be included in kernel up

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-16 Thread jgreenso
Almost two weeks since the last comment, the status of this bug remains 'Incomplete'. It would be good to know what tests are needed to make it 'Complete'. Presumably someone maintaining the packages may hold a clue as to what to look at? Unfortunately our machine has now had to go into productio

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-03 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Interesting, I hadn't tested using non-server kernel images. Thanks for the suggestion jgreenso, I'll be trying that on our problematic machines. -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576001 You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-03 Thread jgreenso
Jeremy: You're asking those affected to test the latest upstream kernel build. I've looked, and I can only spot -generic builds. Are you asking us to test this specifically, given we seem to be working fine with the current released version of -generic anyway? It would seem more reasonable to have

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-06-03 Thread jgreenso
I think I just reported this bug too - if someone feels confident enough that we are all in the same boat please mark mine as a duplicate of this. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/588799 -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576001

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-05-19 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
I just went through that whole mess again and reinstalled one of the machines. Unfortunately to no avail. Installation went speedy and fine, aptitude update and aptitude safe-upgrade as well (this includes installation of the new kernel image), rebooted three or four times and now it hangs again. I

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-05-17 Thread Charles Auer
Wish we had some direction as to what information was needed to help narrow this down. I was able to get mine back up and running after a clean install, but I am a bit reluctant to do any kernel upgrades for the time being, as I don't want to have to go thru that whole mess again. -- kernel 2.6.3

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-05-17 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
Charles, this is exactly what I did in the first place. Clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 Server, then upgrade to -22-server kernel. More often than not the system would not come up correctly, as described above. -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/57600

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-05-11 Thread Charles Auer
Andreas Ntaflos: Does the same hanging happen if you do a clean install, then upgrade to the -22 kernel? Trying to see if the same workaround that worked for me, works for you. -- kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576001 You received this bug notifi

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-05-10 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
This is becoming a bit scary. I have continued experimenting with the HP DL380 machines I have here and even now even the even with the kernel image 2.6.32-21-server makes the machine hang. I can still SSH into it and look at the process list, see attachment. Does anything in there look suspicious

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-05-08 Thread Steven Schiebel
I have had this same issue as well. After it happened the first time, I did a clean install. I ran apt-get safe-upgrade to get the kernel updates. Installed mdadm and set up my raid 6 array without problems. Edited my /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf and /etc/fstab files to automatically assemble and moun

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-05-06 Thread Charles Auer
Those are the same symptoms that I experienced. Only difference is that I wasn't able to connect via SSH (the box is running Samba, BIND9, DHCP3 and SSH, and a few other stuff, virtualbox for one). Ctrl+Alt+Del to force a reboot was recognized and halted all the processes and rebooted the machine.

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-05-06 Thread Andreas Ntaflos
I don't think this was a fluke. Reading the description and the symptoms this seems exactly what we have been experiencing on three of our HP DL380 G6 servers. These three server are identical (modulo disk capacity) and serve as our test beds for Ubuntu Server 10.04 (freshly installed as of yester

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-05-05 Thread Charles Auer
After getting back into a workable system I backed up everything and then did a clean reinstall. apt-get dist-upgrade to get the new kernel and I now have a logon prompt. I guess it might have been a fluke, or maybe caused by one of the packages I had installed. Any way to narrow it down? ** Ta

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-05-05 Thread Charles Auer
I try using the kernel located here: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel- ppa/mainline/v2.6.33.1-lucid/linux- image-2.6.33-02063301-generic_2.6.33-02063301_amd64.deb Tried installing the headers as well, but it failed with "missing dependencies." As for right now, I am unable to even access GRUB, si

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-05-05 Thread Jeremy Foshee
Hi Charles, If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upst

[Bug 576001] Re: kernel 2.6.32-32 makes machine hang during boot

2010-05-05 Thread Charles Auer
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