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Re: port-xen/33151: NetBSD 3 Xen domain0 kernel crashes when attempting

Subject: Re: port-xen/33151: NetBSD 3 Xen domain0 kernel crashes when attempting to reboot with root mounted on RAID
From: Manuel Bouyer
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:55:04 +0000 UTC
The following reply was made to PR port-xen/33151; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: gnats-bugs@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: port-xen-maintainer@xxxxxxxxxx, gnats-admin@xxxxxxxxxx,
        netbsd-bugs@xxxxxxxxxx, tekronis@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: port-xen/33151: NetBSD 3 Xen domain0 kernel crashes when 
attempting to reboot with root mounted on RAID
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 19:50:57 +0200

 On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 12:15:04PM +0000, H. G. wrote:
 >  ISSUE RESOLVED!
 >  Cause of the issue found:
 >  
 >  It was due to a partition with the raid device being used without the
 >  'swapoff=3DYES' line in
 >  '/etc/rc.conf'.  According to the RAID man pages, swap on RAID should be
 >  used with that
 >  line present in rc.conf
 >  
 >  Without that line present, the machine was crashing.
 
 This should really not be needed. I don't have this on any of my raidframe
 machines. 
 
 >  
 >  I have attached a picture of the stack trace you see when it crashes.
 >  Again, MY issue has been resolved.
 >  This crash was caused by a swap partition on a RAID device [raid0]
 >  being used without the 'swapoff=3DYES' line present in the rc.conf
 
 I don't think so, I can't see how this is related to the flushcache
 not completing properly.
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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