On 02/15/2014 11:33 AM, Max Grobecker wrote: > Hi, > > I recently installed some fresh CentOS 6.5 machines and it took only > about 20 minutes until the file system (ext4) was broken. > And with "broken" I mean, that the system wasn't able to find vital > system libraries any more! > > I were able to reproduce it on highly different systems: > > - A fresh installed CentOS 6.5 64 Bit on a virtual machine (KVM) > - A system which I installed some weeks ago (also a KVM machine) and > did a "yum update" which upgraded to kernel 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6. > - A fresh installed CentOS 6.5 64 Bit on native hardware on a RAID 5 > assembled with mdadm > - A CentOS 6.4 system installed some months ago on native hardware with > mdadm RAID 5 > > The last system wasn't able to boot after the upgrade and crashed with > several kernel panics which I can show as a screenshot if there's any > interest - but the display resolution was quite low so there are not > many helpful information :-( > > > > Actually, I assume that there's anything broken with the new kernel or > at least the kernel module for ext4 file system. > You can reproduce it by just doing a "yum update" and rebooting the > system. If it comes up, reboot it again and manually do an offline > filesystem check - or just do some writing activities on the disks. > > > Is it just me? I don't use any 3rd party repositorys and it blows my > mind that no one else seems to notice...! I have the following VM I am currently using to build software on: Linux sclbuild 2.6.32-431.5.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Feb 12 00:41:43 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux It has this as the main filesystem: /dev/mapper/vg_sclbuild-lv_root on / type ext4 (rw) I am not having any issues with this Xen DomU VM, running on a Xen4CentOS6 Dom0. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20140215/62364880/attachment-0004.sig>