Re: Kernel Crash when using the open-iscsi initiator on 2.6.25.6

["Ashutosh Naik" <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:

>>  connection5:0: ping timeout of 5 secs expired, last rx 4309652882,
>> last ping 4309657882, now 4309662882
>
>
> However, once it happens we should not report it again like is done here.
> There is something weird there. Do you have the iscsid output? Between these
> two reports of pings timing out is there any messages from iscsid about
> reconnecting?

iscsid tried to reconnect but the target died, I think.

>>  connection5:0: detected conn error (1011)
>>  connection5:0: detected conn error (1011)
>>  session5: host reset succeeded
>
>
> And we should not get here. The iscsi driver's scsi command timeout handler
> should prevent the command from firing the scsi eh, because in this case we
> think it is a transport problem.
>
> What version of the iscsi tools are you using? Are they from a distro or
> open-iscsi.org?
>
> Are you running with the iscsi kernel modules from 2.6.25.6, or are you
> using the iscsi modules from the open-iscsi.org website that come with the
> tarball?
>
> Is the kernel a unmodified 2.6.25.6 or does it have some distro patches or
> patches that you have created?

It was an unmodififed 2.6.25.6 kernel, and open-iscsi version 2.0-869.2

>> INFO: task fdisk:5226 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
>
> I think you get this message and what follows, is a result of the above
> problem. While the iscsi initiator is trying to reconnect, IO is queued by
> the scsi layer so fdisk is going to be waiting around until we recover or
> give up.

Yep, but is there any way to close gracefully and avoid the kernel dump?

Thanks
Ashutosh