Emmett Culley wrote:
On 09/08/2011 02:25 AM, Nick wrote:
On 08/09/11 07:23, Emmett Culley wrote:
Today I suddenly have two VMs that have read only file systems. The host is CentOS 6, as are the two VMs with this problem.
Disclaimer: I can't claim this matches your circumstance exactly, but it is something you might check.
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I will give that a try. However I remembered something about both failed VMs from my investigations yesterday and checked it out this morning on the one that is still available. The last lines of syslog (/var/log/messages) are:
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Sep 7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen Sep 7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1.00: failed command: WRITE DMA Sep 7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1.00: cmd ca/00:08:a0:02:31/00:00:00:00:00/e3 tag 0 dma 4096 out Sep 7 21:59:23 dev kernel: res 40/00:01:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) Sep 7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY } Sep 7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1: soft resetting link Sep 7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1.00: configured for MWDMA2 Sep 7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1.00: device reported invalid CHS sector 0 Sep 7 21:59:23 dev kernel: ata1: EH complete
<snip> Bad news, IMO: I think you have a hardware problem - looks like sector 0 of your h/d has gone bad.
Got backups? Got spare drive?
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