Re: KVM on CentOS 6

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On 09/08/2011 10:34 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Emmett Culley wrote:
>> On 09/08/2011 09:07 AM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>> Emmett Culley wrote:
>>>> On 09/08/2011 02:25 AM, Nick wrote:
>>>>> On 08/09/11 07:23, Emmett Culley wrote:
>>>>>> Today I suddenly have two VMs that have read only file systems.  The
>>>>>> host is CentOS 6, as are the two VMs with this problem.
> <snip>
>>>> the one that is still available.  The last lines of syslog
>>>> (/var/log/messages) are:
>>> <snip>
>>>> Sep  7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr
>>>> 0x0
>>>> action 0x6 frozen
>>>> Sep  7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE DMA
>>>> Sep  7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1.00: cmd
>>>> ca/00:08:a0:02:31/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 dma 4096 out
>>>> Sep  7 21:59:23 dev kernel:         res
>>>> 40/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
>>>> Sep  7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
>>>> Sep  7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1: soft resetting link
>>>> Sep  7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1.00: configured for MWDMA2
>>>> Sep  7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector
>>>> 0
>>>> Sep  7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1: EH complete
>>> <snip>
>>> Bad news, IMO: I think you have a hardware problem - looks like sector 0
>>> of your h/d has gone bad.
>>>
>>> Got backups? Got spare drive?
>>>
>> Except that this "hardware" is on the guest and so is virtual.  The image
>> is actually a LVM logical volume.  So, it must be either a kvm/qemu or a
>> kernel bug.  I am working on getting a bug reported, as soon as I figure
>> out where to report it.
> 
> Are you sure that the host o/s isn't passing a real error up? Are there
> errors in the host's logfile?
> 
>           mark

Turns out you were correct.  I did see the same error on the host, though with an hour earlier time stamp.

I replaced that drive and all seems well now.

Thanks for your insight.

Emmett

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