LVM File System failing the booting of a RHEL5 server

[Ivan Ferreira]

Whare are these file systems located? On a SAN Storage? Maybe the system is not recognizing the devices during boot. Check for any extrange messages during boot phase at the "activating volume groups" stage.

[Yaboto]

The problematique mount points are on an EVA Storage through SAN.

I copy & paste some portion of /var/log/messages for your attention:


Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf was parsed
, found DEVICESCAN, scanning devices
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Problem creating device name scan list
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Device: /dev/sda, opened
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Device: /dev/sda, IE (SMART) not enabled, skip
device Try 'smartctl -s on /dev/sda' to turn on SMART features
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Device: /dev/sdb, opened
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Device: /dev/sdb, IE (SMART) not enabled, skip
device Try 'smartctl -s on /dev/sdb' to turn on SMART features
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Device: /dev/sdc, opened
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Device: /dev/sdc, IE (SMART) not enabled, skip
device Try 'smartctl -s on /dev/sdc' to turn on SMART features
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Device: /dev/sdd, opened
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Device: /dev/sdd, IE (SMART) not enabled, skip
device Try 'smartctl -s on /dev/sdd' to turn on SMART features
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Device: /dev/sde, opened
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Device: /dev/sde, IE (SMART) not enabled, skip
device Try 'smartctl -s on /dev/sde' to turn on SMART features
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Device: /dev/sdf, opened
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Device: /dev/sdf, IE (SMART) not enabled, skip
device Try 'smartctl -s on /dev/sdf' to turn on SMART features
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11334]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 0 SCSI devices
Aug 2 11:01:05 rcbdev smartd[11340]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New
PID=11340.

Can this be what is causing the problem ?

Please Advice,

[Ivan Ferreira]

There are some issues with EVA and qlogic adapters. Check the attached doc in the section:

Troubleshooting HSV210 devices on Linux

[Viktor Balogh]

Hi,

these are smartd messages. smartd is a daemon to periodically check the SMART database of a disk to foretell the drive failures. These *might* be related to your problem the following way: I think some drivers are missing at boot time to recognize /dev/sda etc...

[Yaboto]

Thanks !