FW: 6.1 hangs after launching CPU on DL380

[Jan Mikkelsen]

Geoff Buckingham wrote:
>> I am not sure that this is an issue specific to proliant, but...
>>
>> I just finished an install of 6.1 on a dl380 with dual xeon 3.2 procs.
>> things seem fine, but when it is booting, it hangs for about 4 minutes
>> after the "Launching CPU x" phase. Boot continues normally after that,
>> but the delay is disconcerting for some reason.
>>
>> anyone dealt with this.
>>
> Do you get this with non SMP kernels? We have seen hangs, or pauses on
> machines with ciss controllers during GEOM setup. The length of the pause
> varied with the number of GEOMs loaded. It was ususally around a minute
> with a minimal set. It would seem logical the period would increase with
> more disk arrays. (We only had one).
>
> My own, untested, theory is GEOM is tasting the passX devices provided by
> the ciss driver and becoming confused by something.
>
> Currently we just live with the pause:-(

I've seen it too, seems to happen just after it finds the ciss controller, I 
haven't investigated in more detail.

I am pretty sure that I've seen in even with just a GENERIC kernel, but I 
haven't tested for a while.

The delay does get to be a pain ...

Jan Mikkelsen