Re: [suse-oracle] ocfs2 problem after sles 10 SP2 upgrade

Problem 1 is not OCFS relarted, it is ASYNC-IO related (the bug in SLES10 
SP2 kernel). Just upgrade to the latest kernel.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arun Singh" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] ocfs2 problem after sles 10 SP2 upgrade


> Hello Draghici,
>
> #1 & #3 are caused by same issue, and most likely addressed in latest SP2 
> kernel update (2.6.16.60-0.37).
>
> #2 - It appears to be OCFS2 related.
>
> Please apply latest kernel patch and If it doesn't help open a bug with 
> Novell.
>
> Thanks,
> Arun
>
>>>> On 4/13/2009 at 6:53 AM, gabi draghici <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello to everyone !
>>
>> We had an sles 10 Sp1 , oracle rac 10.2.0.4,  ocfs  combination wich 
>> worked
>> fine for about an year !
>> After we've done some testing we decided to upgrade to sles 10  Sp2 !
>> After upgrade we've notice 3 problems so far :
>>
>>    1. rman ( oracle tool for backup) doesn't work anymore from the local 
>> fs
>> :
>>
>>  Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Mon Apr 13 16:43:19
>> 2009
>>  Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
>>  RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
>>  RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
>>  RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
>>  RMAN-00554: initialization of internal recovery manager package failed
>>  RMAN-03000: recovery manager compiler component initialization failed
>>  RMAN-06001: error parsing job step library
>>  RMAN-01006: error signalled during parse
>>  RMAN-00600: internal error, arguments [8083] [] [] [] []
>>  LFI-00005: Free some memory failed in lfibrdt().
>>  LFI-00004: Call to lfibgl() failed.
>>
>>    2. in /var/log/messages we have :
>>
>>
>> Apr 13 13:59:03 nod2 kernel: Call Trace:
>> <ffffffff8016357a>{remove_from_page_cache+49}
>> Apr 13 13:59:03 nod2 kernel:
>> <ffffffff801695b4>{truncate_complete_page+53}
>> <ffffffff8016965e>{truncate_inode_pages_range+159}
>> Apr 13 13:59:03 nod2 kernel:
>> <ffffffff884af364>{:ocfs2:ocfs2_data_convert_worker+202}
>> Apr 13 13:59:03 nod2 kernel:
>> <ffffffff884ad602>{:ocfs2:ocfs2_downconvert_thread+1190}
>> Apr 13 13:59:03 nod2 kernel:
>> <ffffffff80148092>{autoremove_wake_function+0}
>> <ffffffff884ad15c>{:ocfs2:ocfs2_downconvert_thread+0}
>> Apr 13 13:59:03 nod2 kernel:
>> <ffffffff80147c88>{keventd_create_kthread+0} 
>> <ffffffff80147f50>{kthread+236}
>> Apr 13 13:59:04 nod2 kernel:        <ffffffff8010bed2>{child_rip+8}
>> <ffffffff80147c88>{keventd_create_kthread+0}
>> Apr 13 13:59:04 nod2 kernel:        <ffffffff80147e64>{kthread+0}
>> <ffffffff8010beca>{child_rip+0}
>> Apr 13 13:59:04 nod2 kernel: Badness in __remove_from_page_cache_nocheck 
>> at
>> mm/filemap.c:122
>>
>> The only thing we found about that is a novell document, id = 7000562 
>> wich
>> resolution is "please open a service request ... ".
>>
>>
>>  3. in oracle's alert.log we found that arch process can't write :
>>
>>
>>
>> ARC1: Encountered disk I/O error 19502
>> Mon Apr 13 13:02:36 2009
>> ARC1: Closing local archive destination LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_1:
>> '/oracle/PRD/oraarch/PRDarch/1_12508_639435084.dbf' (error 19502)
>>  (PRD001)
>> Mon Apr 13 13:02:36 2009
>> Errors in file /oracle/PRD/saptrace/background/prd001_arc1_9381.trc:
>> ORA-19502: write error on file
>> "/oracle/PRD/oraarch/PRDarch/1_12508_639435084.dbf", blockno 32769
>> (blocksize=512)
>> ORA-27061: waiting for async I/Os failed
>> Linux-x86_64 Error: 5: Input/output error
>> Additional information: -1
>> Additional information: 1048576
>>
>>
>> This one we solved by disabling the disk_asynch_io and 
>> filesystemio_options
>> ! The efect is that performance is affected (but at least the arch
>> process is ok now );
>>
>>
>> Any help is appreciated !
>>
>>
>> Draghici Gabriel
>> database administrator
>
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