[DRBD-user] Kernel Panic

Matteo Tescione matteo at rmnet.it
Thu Jan 29 18:18:49 CET 2009

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Hi,

I had a similar problem with my drbd datastore, don¹t know if it¹s the same
but I remember that I switched off the ³tickless² kernel configuration
option and it solved my random crashes.
Just my 2cent,
--
matteo



Il 29/01/09 13:15, "Igor Neves" <[IND]> ha scritto:

> Hi
> 
> Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>>  
>> On 2009-01-29T11:57:53, Igor Neves <igor at 3gnt.net> <mailto:igor at 3gnt.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>   
>>  
>>>  
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Yes I have seen and I know that the module that don't loads correctly
>>> it's from vmware.
>>>     
>>>  
>>  
>> 
>> Well, so, on the node which is not currently primary, you're not running
>> the VMs, right? So, how about trying to see if it does not crash if
>> vmware is never loaded at all?
>>   
>> 
>> Yes, i was not running the virtual machine, but vmware was running. Anyway, I
>> have this vmware running in other places without problems, so as half of the
>> world! :)
>> 
>> Yes i will do that too, and i will be investigating and working on changing
>> the virtualization plataform. I know there are much better alternatives, but
>> i don't have much time to try them out. Now i will be forced to have. heheh.
>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>>   
>>>  
>>>>  
>>>> The problem with the module it's that it complains about it's license.
>>>> Vmware configure script try to load the module when configuring it and
>>>> and it says it loads OK, but kernel complains about license.
>>>>     
>>>>  
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Of course. vmware is a GPL violation, so the kernel rightfully complains
>>> ...
>>>   
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>>   
>>>  
>>>>  
>>>> I'm just remembering now, that centos crew they recently change
>>>> kmod-drbd package politics, before they had one rpm for each kernel they
>>>> sent out. Now the same rpm it's for all the kernels. Can that be the
>>>> problem?
>>>>     
>>>>  
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Not sure. You'd see from the logs at boot time - when the modules are
>>> initially loaded - which module load causes the taint flags to be set.
>>>   
>> 
>> Yes, no doubts, it's vmware.
>> 
>> vsock: no version for "VMCIDatagram_Send" found: kernel tainted.
>> 
>>>  
>>> Regards,
>>>     Lars
>>>   
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Igor Neves
>> 
>> 
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