Boot hangs on modprobe errors

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Oct 2 20:39:56 UTC 2008


> INFO: task scsi_scan_0:449 blocked for more than 120 seconds

It got stuck trying to scan a scsi device - perhaps the RAID array. If
you hit a key during the boot prompt from grub and edit the boot line to
remove the "quiet" it will spew rather more info which should help see
what broke and where

> "echo 0> /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> 
> We used 32bit fedora 9 to install onto a 3 dish scsi raid5. I am not
> sure if this machine is 32bit or 64bit, but I figured 32bit fedora
> should work on both?

Yes, and 64bit will print an error on 32bit.

Alan




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