I've also seen this, but only on Vmware Server. I recently wanted to move a VM between servers, and in the past I've noticed that a VM including a snapshot sometimes doesn't like to be moved. So I usually remove the snapshot first, then move, then snapshot it again if necessary. On this occasion, after removing the snapshot, it would start up. I had to point the VM at an older virtual disk file, which essentially reverted it back to the way it was at the time of the snapshot, losing recent changes. It doesn't make for a good night's sleep, that's for sure. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kenneth Holter Sent: 26 August 2009 10:45 To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: RHEL 3 on VMware chrashed, resulting in "directory contains a hole" messages Thanks for your reply. In the Vmware VC console, I located the server in question, clicked "manage snapshots", and clicked the snapshot and the hit the "delete" button. Basically the same procedure I've done a thousand times before, only this time it caused the linux server to crash. I've seen this a few times before, actually, but haven't been able to find the reason why the linux server crashes. It must be a bug within Vmware, or with Linux on Vmware, that's causing it. Have anyone else experienced this before? We were not able to rescue the server that crashed yesterday, so we decided to migrate to a new RHEL 5 server which was allready a planned activity. But I must say that I'm a bit worried about running linux on Vmware having had a few (maybe four or five) servers crashing on me the past year and a half I've been running RHEL on vmware. So if anyone knows how to debug these issues to increase the stability I'd greatly appreciate it. Unfortunately, I haven't got very much data to analyze, so I could use some advice on how to retrieve such data the next time a linux server crashes. Regards, Kenneth On 8/25/09, Josh Miller <joshua@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Kenneth Holter wrote: > >> One of our RHEL 3 servers (it's scheduled to be replaced withing weeks) >> just >> crashed, and I could use some advice on how to get it up and running. >> >> It's running as an Vmware ESX 3.5 guest, and chrashed when I removed a >> snapshot earlier today. If I understand correctly it lost contact with the >> virtual disks or something of that kind, resulting in this type of message >> in syslog: >> >> >> * kernel: EXT3-fs error (device lvm(58,0)): ext3_readdir: directory >> #1724801 contains a hole at offset 3014656 >> > > How exactly did you remove the snapshot? > > > -- > Josh Miller, RHCE/VCP > Seattle, WA > Linux Solutions Provider > Website: http://itsecureadmin.com/ > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
