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g_pellegrino
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‎09-14-2023 06:33 AM

I/O error on CentOS 7

Hi,

For the past few days my machine every 13-14 minutes crashes and in /var/log/messages I find:

Sep 14 15:26:35 MY-VM kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=ffff9af030d6b2c0)
Sep 14 15:26:35 MY-VM kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 00 0f b0 48 00 00 08 00
Sep 14 15:26:35 MY-VM kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (rv=2002) (sc=ffff9af030d6b2c0)
Sep 14 15:26:35 MY-VM kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=ffff9af030d6aa00)
Sep 14 15:26:35 MY-VM kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 00 0f b0 80 00 00 08 00
Sep 14 15:26:35 MY-VM kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (rv=2002) (sc=ffff9af030d6aa00)
Sep 14 15:26:35 MY-VM kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=ffff9af030d68fc0)
Sep 14 15:26:35 MY-VM kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB: Write(10) 2a 00 00 0f ce 38 00 00 08 00
Sep 14 15:26:35 MY-VM kernel: mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: SUCCESS (rv=2002) (sc=ffff9af030d68fc0)

I can't figure out what it is due to, any ideas?

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kastlr
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‎09-14-2023 01:31 PM

Hi,

you should check the vmkernel logs off the ESXi Sever your Cent OS is running on.

As writes seems to fail you should find messages similar to

  • 2011-04-04T21:07:30.257Z cpu2:2050)ScsiDeviceIO: 2315: Cmd(0x4124003edb00) 0x12, CmdSN 0x51 to dev "naa.600508e000000000c9f6baa7c19f6900" failed H:0x0 D:0x2 P:0x0 Valid sense data: 0x5 0x24 0x0.
  • Mar 9 23:53:24 esx405 vmkernel: 2:14:39:54.069 cpu3:4300)ScsiDeviceIO: 1688: Command 0x28 to device "naa.60000970000292600219533031453245" failed H:0x1 D:0x0 P:0x3 Possible sense data: 0x0 0x0 0x0.

Additionally you should check the vmware.log file of that special VM, you'll find it in the same folder where the .vmx file is located.


Hope this helps a bit.
Greetings from Germany. (CEST)
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g_pellegrino
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‎09-16-2023 06:53 AM

Investigating the problem seems related to the latest kernel, now trying downgrade to 3.10.0-1160.15.2.el7

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g_pellegrino
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‎09-16-2023 10:56 AM

The problem was not with the kernel, but with one of these software (removed with yum):

  • desktop-file-utils-0.23-2.el7.x86_64
  • emacs-filesystem-1:24.3-23.el7_9.1.noarch
  • libsecret-0.18.6-1.el7.x86_64
  • libxkbfile-1.0.9-3.el7.x86_64
  • xdg-utils-1.1.0-0.17.20120809git.el7.noarch
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