I hit the same bug Thomas Mueller saw 3 weeks ago, I'm using the latest Debian unstable packages. Sage pushed a fix, but I think my debian packages are outdated, arn't they daily built? mds/Locker.cc: In function 'void Locker::simple_xlock(SimpleLock*)': mds/Locker.cc:3138: FAILED assert("shouldn't be called if we are already xlockable" == 0) ceph version 0.22~rc (b9f2816b47f9b118498ed70fd9f4dc54551af4ae) 1: (Locker::xlock_start(SimpleLock*, MDRequest*)+0x29b) [0x58bfbb] 2: (Locker::acquire_locks(MDRequest*, std::set<SimpleLock*, std::less<SimpleLock*>, std::allocator<SimpleLock*> >&, std::set<SimpleLock*, std::less<SimpleLock*>, std::allocator<SimpleLock*> >&, std::set<SimpleLock*, std::less<SimpleLock*>, std::allocator<SimpleLock*> >&)+0x1d39) [0x594399] 3: (Server::handle_client_openc(MDRequest*)+0x484) [0x4da0e4] 4: (Server::handle_client_request(MClientRequest*)+0x308) [0x4e4128] 5: (MDS::_dispatch(Message*)+0x2394) [0x4a6294] 6: (MDS::ms_dispatch(Message*)+0x6d) [0x4a64ad] 7: (SimpleMessenger::dispatch_entry()+0x729) [0x4806d9] 8: (SimpleMessenger::DispatchThread::entry()+0x1c) [0x478d0c] 9: (Thread::_entry_func(void*)+0xa) [0x48b7aa] 10: (()+0x68ba) [0x7f11936ea8ba] 11: (clone()+0x6d) [0x7f119269e01d] - Clean mkcephfs - Mount - dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/ceph/dd-file bs=4k count=1 Client: kernel client 2.6.36-rc8 Servers: 0.22~rc-unstable201009291207-b9f2816b-1 with 2.6.36-rc6 Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html