Re: [vserver] reboot -f hangs

From: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel_at_hozac.com>
Date: Thu 20 Mar 2008 - 11:36:39 GMT
Message-ID: <54098.192.168.101.12.1206012999.squirrel@intranet>

Gebhardt Thomas wrote:
> Dear Daniel,
>
>> > when I try to reboot a VServer from "inside", the (using reboot -f)
>> > the VServer doesn't reboot. Even worse: the reboot process does
>> > not return (state: D) and can't be killed even from the host system
>>
>> Do you see vshelper processes on the host too?
> No I don't.
>
>> > My kernel version is 2.6.24.2-vs2.2.0.5.0.7 on debian etch
>> > (util-vserver: 0.30.212-1).
>>
>> You are using a wildly experimental kernel (i.e. not feature complete,
>> much less thoroughly tested) with old utils. You'll at least want to
>> upgrade to 0.30.215, and maybe try a kernel that's known to work...
>
> Thank you very much for your advice!
>
> Indeed all is well with 0.30.215 (or 0.30.214, which is in debian
> testing).
> Since we are forced to use RDAC multipathing to access the SAN
> devices, we need a kernel version >= 2.6.23 . I'll try to get the most
> reasonable configuration within that boundary condition.
>
> What do you mean with "not feature complete"?

It doesn't support the CPU scheduling, fakeinit is known to be broken,
there's a lot of essentially untested code, some new features don't work
at all yet... It needs work, and time is a scarce resource.

> Thanks for your help!
> Thomas

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Daniel Hokka Zakrisson
Received on Thu Mar 20 11:37:02 2008
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