[BlueOnyx:07586] Re: Can someone offer any insight on what is causing this crash on a DL360 G4?

[Darrell D. Mobley]

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> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 10:25 PM
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> Subject: [BlueOnyx:07567] Re: Can someone offer any insight on what is
> causing this crash on a DL360 G4?
> 
> My thoughts exactly.
> 
> I now have 3 x DL360 G3, 2 x DL360 G4 ( BlueOnyx ) and 2 x DL380 G4  ( 1 x
> BlueOnyx and 1 x ESXi ) which I am going to firmware update the lot and
> then reload ( well for the BlueOnyx machines ) and see what happens.
> 
> I will keep you posted and will wait to see your results with great
> interest.

Well, I spoke too soon.  I tried every combination of package before finally
just sticking the news kernel, the newest cciss drivers and the newest Smart
Array 5 firmware controller and was awaken at 3:30AM with a locked up
computer running 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 with the new cciss drivers.  I booted
back to 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 and went to sleep, started over this morning.
Withing 3 minutes I had locked bonnie++ with 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5, switched
to 2.6.18-164.15.1 and locked it up within 3 minutes and then went all out,
as described below:

The Firmware Maintenance CD 8.60 located at
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lan
g=en&cc=us&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=MTX-124beffbed3842cea0b9b3f962

The cciss driver pack cpq_cciss-3.6.28-7.rhel5.i686.rpm at
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lan
g=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=316529&swItem=MTX-33281cbfb5ad422c8
c235b9339&mode=4&idx=1

You should have kernel or 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 or 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5PAE on
your system if you are YUM updated.

1. Install the Firmware Maintenance CD (you may need a different one for you
6i's).  If you are not local to the server and can iLO, you can set up
virtual media CD and link to the ISO you downloaded.)
2. Install the cciss driver pack after downgrading to 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5,
it won't install otherwise.
3. If you have the server local, or have iLO set up, or a IP-based remote
power strip, edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to use the 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 as the
default (remember to start counting at zero).
4. Download bonnie++ to load the server.  I had to download and install
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61 (gcc-c++-4.1.2-50.el5 was already installed I
think.)
5. Reboot the computer and either through the console or iLO, hit a key to
pick a key to boot into.  Boot into 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.  Start bonnie++.  I
made a "tmp" file in my /home directory and ran "/usr/local/sbin/bonnie++ -d
tmp -u0:0 -x100".  It start wearing out the disks to load it.  Mine has been
running 160 minutes now with no lockup.

Lots of talk in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615543.