On Friday August 11, pwaldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi all, > > I've got a machine with a RAID6 array which hung on me yesterday. Upon > reboot, mdadm refused to start the array, since it was degraded and > dirty. The array had 7 drives, and one had previously gone bad. I'm > running Fedora Core 5. > > I rebooted, using the "md-mod.start_dirty_degraded=1" parameter. > Everything seemed to be OK--the sync process started and I watched it go > for about half an hour. I came back later, and found the machine had a > kernel panic with the message "Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal > exception in interrupt". Just to make sure, I restarted and tried to > sync again, but got the same message. > > What might be causing this? Is there any way to recover? Thanks in > advance! It is very hard to say without more details. Was there any stack trace? Any other possibly related messages that you can report? And what kernel (exactly) are you using? NeilBrown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
