[linux-lvm] Frozen root volume

Larkin Lowrey llowrey at nuclearwinter.com
Thu Apr 5 00:38:25 UTC 2012


I've been chasing problem where my root volume freezes up and will not
process any more i/o (at least no more writes).

The iostat output below shows what is going on when it gets in this
state. The dm-1 device is stuck with avgrq-sz of 50 but zeros for all
other values. All disks and raid devices hosting this volume show zeros
across the board.

I am unable to cleanly shut down as all writes to the root fs are
blocked so I have to do a hard reset.

I've attached the output of 'echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger'.

This phenomenon did not occur prior to updating from F15 -> F16 so I
doubt it's a hardware issue.

Any ideas or suggestions?

--Larkin


Device:         rrqm/s   wrqm/s     r/s     w/s    rkB/s    wkB/s
avgrq-sz avgqu-sz   await r_await w_await  svctm  %util
sda               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdb               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdc               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdd               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sde               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdf               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdg               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdh               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdi               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdj               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdk               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdl               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
md0               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
md1               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
md2               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
md10              0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdm               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdn               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdo               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdq               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdp               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdr               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sds               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
sdt               0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
dm-0              0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
dm-1              0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00    50.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00 100.00
dm-2              0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00
dm-3              0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00     0.00     0.00
0.00     0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00   0.00   0.00


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