On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 19:09 +0100, Ambrogio wrote: > Il giorno mer, 24/01/2007 alle 19.19 +0100, Sander Hoentjen ha scritto: > > Thank you very much for taking the time to answer! > > The machine is remote so I cannot see it when booting. Is there any way > > to see the errors after startup? > You can check with the dmesg command or reading the log. > First /var/log/messages... and after some other log, but it depends. > Normally the messages is enough > Well that doesn't give me the Starting service [ OK ] stuff, what I was looking for. It does give me some kernel error: Jan 28 21:19:10 storagevrt kernel: scsi4 : iSCSI Initiator over TCP/IP Jan 28 21:19:10 storagevrt avahi-daemon[3299]: Service "SFTP File Transfer on storagevrt" (/services/sftp-ssh.service) successfully established. Jan 28 21:19:12 storagevrt kernel: Jan 28 21:19:12 storagevrt kernel: ====================================================== Jan 28 21:19:12 storagevrt kernel: [ INFO: hard-safe -> hard-unsafe lock order detected ] Jan 28 21:19:12 storagevrt kernel: 2.6.19-1.2914.fc7 #1 Jan 28 21:19:12 storagevrt kernel: ------------------------------------------------------ Jan 28 21:19:12 storagevrt kernel: iscsid/3369 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] is trying to acquire: Jan 28 21:19:12 storagevrt kernel: (&session->lock){-+..}, at: [<f8aafbed>] iscsi_queuecommand+0x48/0x18e [libiscsi] Jan 28 21:19:12 storagevrt kernel: Jan 28 21:19:12 storagevrt kernel: and this task is already holding: Jan 28 21:19:12 storagevrt kernel: (shost->host_lock){.+..}, at: [<f885fb72>] scsi_dispatch_cmd+0x1a0/0x2b0 [scsi_mod] <SNIP> Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: [<c0478b73>] vfs_write+0xaf/0x163 Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: [<c04791c1>] sys_write+0x3d/0x61 Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: [<c0404058>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: ======================= Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access IFT A12E-G2121-2 342D PQ: 0 ANSI: 3 Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: sdb : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: SCSI device sdb: 9762385920 512-byte hdwr sectors (4998342 MB) Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: sdb : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: SCSI device sdb: 9762385920 512-byte hdwr sectors (4998342 MB) Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: SCSI device sdb: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: sdb: unknown partition table Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb Jan 28 21:19:13 storagevrt kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 Jan 28 21:19:28 storagevrt iscsid: recvpool leak: 8256 bytes Jan 28 21:19:29 storagevrt smartd[3412]: smartd version 5.36 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Jan 28 21:19:29 storagevrt smartd[3412]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Jan 28 21:19:29 storagevrt smartd[3412]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf Jan 28 21:19:29 storagevrt smartd[3412]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed. Jan 28 21:19:29 storagevrt smartd[3412]: Device: /dev/sda, opened Jan 28 21:19:29 storagevrt smartd[3412]: Device: /dev/sda, found in smartd database. Jan 28 21:19:29 storagevrt smartd[3412]: Device: /dev/sda, is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list. Jan 28 21:19:29 storagevrt smartd[3412]: Monitoring 1 ATA and 0 SCSI devices Jan 28 21:19:29 storagevrt smartd[3414]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=3414. Jan 28 21:19:39 storagevrt iscsid: connection0:0 is operational after recovery (1 attempts) Is this something I should report, and where? To the fedora kernel or upstream kernel? then after the service netfs start: Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-70, internal journal Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-71, internal journal Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-40, internal journal Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-69, internal journal Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: EXT3 FS on dm-42, internal journal Jan 28 21:39:03 storagevrt kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. etc. > > > > # ls /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/ > > K02avahi-dnsconfd K69rpcsvcgssd K89netplugd S05kudzu S13iscsi S25bluetooth S55cups S95anacron > > K02dhcdbd K73ypbind K89pand S06cpuspeed S13mcstrans S25netfs S55sshd S95atd > > K02NetworkManager K74nscd K89rdisc S08ip6tables S13portmap S25pcscd S58ntpd S97yum-updatesd > > K02NetworkManagerDispatcher K80kdump K91capi S09isdn S14nfslock S26apmd S60vsftpd S98avahi-daemon > > K05saslauthd K85mdmpd K92iptables S10network S15mdmonitor S26hidd S80sendmail S98haldaemon > > K10psacct K87multipathd K99microcode_ctl S10restorecond S18rpcidmapd S28autofs S85gpm S99firstboot > > K20nfs K88wpa_supplicant K99readahead_later S12syslog S19rpcgssd S44acpid S85httpd S99local > > K24irda K89dund S04readahead_early S13irqbalance S22messagebus S55apf S90crond S99smartd > > > > So If I understand correctly network goes up, then iscsi and then netfs.. That should be the right order I think. I hope you have some more suggestions. > > This should be the right sequence. > I don't understand what appens. > Maybe something need a modules that can't be loaded at boot time, > because you need to recreate the init ram disk (initrd). > This can explain why you can use it after boot. How can I check if this is needed? > > What kind of partition are /boot and /? /boot is primary ext3 partition (/dev/sda1) / is logical ext3 partition (/dev/sda5) Thanks again, Sander