[CentOS] Filesystem gets corrupted after kernel upgrade to 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6

Sun Feb 16 15:15:05 UTC 2014

OK, the original CentOS mirror does not make any changes to that :-(

Is there any way I can debug these kernel panics?
The hardware I'm testing on is definetily working well (Memtest did not
find any errors, besides that, this machine is using ECC RAM) and as
mentioned, no other machine on this host throws any errors.

The panics seem to be a KVM related thing...
When powering up the machine, it boots without any problems. If I do a
reboot, it nevers comes up again.
Then it gets stuck in a "bootloader loop", which means, the bootloader
shows up, tries to start something and the system gets reset instantly.
The last thing I can see before the reset occurs is
"Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok".
Then the machine gets reset and the bootloader comes up again.

If I add "edd=off" to the kernel parameters before booting, it gets
stuck with a cursor in the top left corner and nothing happens - it
does'nt anything on the disks and does not consume any CPU time.

This machine is running on a Debian Wheezy host with kernel
3.2.0-4-amd64 and QEMU 1.1.2 / libvirtd 0.9.12.

Is there anything I could do to debug this thing more deeply? At the
moment I have to shut off the machine when I'm going to reboot it...

The collapsing file system has been demystified - my colleague simply
missed to reboot the systems after upgrading to the new kernel version.
But, in my opinion, that should'nt happen either...

Thank you!

Greetings from Wuppertal
 Max

Am 16.02.2014 14:55, schrieb Max Grobecker:
> I tested one KVM machine - but this problem occured on several different
> hardwares, most of them are running other virtual machines without
> problems...
> 
> I'm going to test, if it's related to the mirror I'm using.
> All machines were this is happening are using the same mirror server.
> I't very unlikely because the signature would also be broken with a
> broken package - but it's the only thing that seems to be explaining
> what's going on here :-(
> 
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> Am 16.02.2014 03:47, schrieb Gerry Reno:
>> You might have some hardware going bad underneath.
>>
>>
>> On 02/15/2014 03:30 PM, Max Grobecker wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your replies!
>>> Today, I'm unable to get the filesystem errors reproduced - maybe I got
>>> a bad mirror? Very unlikely, the PGP signature should then be broken also...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, at least the problems with booting the machine still exists, but I
>>> tested this only in virtual environments until now.
>>>
>>> In about 50% of my startup tries, the bootloader is counting down and
>>> tries starting the default kernel. But instead of that, the system gets
>>> reset and the bootloader starts again.
>>> Even if I choose the former kernel, this thing still happens.
>>>
>>> After a while the loop gets stopped by a kernel panic. I'm not sure, if
>>> the systems kernel panic'ed, or if it's the boot loader itself...
>>> I attached two screenshots to this mail.
>>> These are the only information I can get so far.
>>>
>>> This strange behaviour only happens to KVM (HVM) machines which were
>>> recently upgraded to the new kernel.
>>> Other systems (surprisingly MS Windows also) are running and booting
>>> finde without problems.
>>> I'm unable to test, if this happens also to native machines without
>>> virtualization, at the moment :-(
>>>
>>> If you need more information, I could help ;-)
>>>
>>>
>>> Greetings from Wuppertal, Germany
>>>  Max
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 15.02.2014 20:31, schrieb Ulf Volmer:
>>>> On 02/15/2014 06:33 PM, Max Grobecker wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is it just me? I don't use any 3rd party repositorys and it blows my
>>>>> mind that no one else seems to notice...!
>>>> Just you.
>>>>
>>>> 2.6.32-431.5.1.el works here without any issues on phys. and virtual
>>>> plattforms.
>>>>
>>>> regrads
>>>> Ulf
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