[PVE-User] disk error messages on kvm guest

[Robert Fantini]

On 11/04/2011 05:18 AM, Meike Stone wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've running proxmox (1.9) on a notebook* and I'm very satisfied!
>
> * AMD Athlon(tm) II P360 Dual-Core Processor
> * SATA controller:    SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
> (ATITechnologies Inc)
> * Disk: Seagate ST9320325AS,  320GB  (ATA )
> * 4GByte RAM (1333MHz)
> (Are there more information needed, please tell it me. )
>
> Yesterday I tried to import a backup from OpenLDAP via slapadd running
> on a openSuSE 11.3  Guest (kvm).
> (Kernel: Linux test01 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-04-06
> 18:11:26 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
>
> During this import, I got following message in the syslog from the
> guest and the guest system was temporary hanging:
>
> Nov  3 16:18:14 test01: [ 6258.766426] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ABORT operation started
> Nov  3 16:18:14 test01: [ 6258.766428] sd 0:0:0:0: ABORT operation failed.
> Nov  3 16:18:14 test01: [ 6258.766432] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] DEVICE RESET
> operation started
> Nov  3 16:18:14 test01: [ 6258.766460] sd 0:0:0:0: DEVICE RESET
> operation complete.
> Nov  3 16:18:14 test01: [ 6258.766652] scsi target0:0:0: control msgout: c.
> Nov  3 16:18:14 test01: [ 6258.766785] scsi target0:0:0: has been reset
> Nov  3 16:18:14 test01: [ 6258.766889] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] BUS RESET
> operation started
> Nov  3 16:18:14 test01: [ 6258.769315] sym0: SCSI BUS reset detected.
> Nov  3 16:18:14 test01: [ 6258.776098] sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
> Nov  3 16:18:14 test01: [ 6258.776113] sd 0:0:0:0: BUS RESET operation complete.
> Nov  3 16:18:24 test01: [ 6268.776202] sym0: unknown interrupt(s)
> ignored, ISTAT=0x5 DSTAT=0x80 SIST=0x0
> Nov  3 16:18:55 test01: [ 6299.741617] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ABORT operation started
> Nov  3 16:18:55 test01: [ 6299.741624] sd 0:0:0:0: ABORT operation failed.
> Nov  3 16:18:55 test01: [ 6299.741626] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ABORT operation started
> Nov  3 16:18:55 test01: [ 6299.741628] sd 0:0:0:0: ABORT operation failed.
> Nov  3 16:18:55 test01: [ 6299.741632] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] DEVICE RESET
> operation started
> Nov  3 16:18:55 test0l: [ 6299.741654] sd 0:0:0:0: DEVICE RESET
> operation complete.
> Nov  3 16:18:55 test0l: [ 6299.741794] scsi target0:0:0: control msgout: c.
> Nov  3 16:18:55 test0l: [ 6299.741892] scsi target0:0:0: has been reset
> Nov  3 16:18:55 test0l: [ 6299.741995] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] BUS RESET
> operation started
> Nov  3 16:18:55 test0l: [ 6299.744359] sym0: SCSI BUS reset detected.
> Nov  3 16:18:55 test0l: [ 6299.751360] sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
> Nov  3 16:18:55 test0l: [ 6299.751388] sd 0:0:0:0: BUS RESET operation complete.
> Nov  3 16:19:05 test0l: [ 6309.752287] sym0: unknown interrupt(s)
> ignored, ISTAT=0x5 DSTAT=0x80 SIST=0x0
> Nov  3 16:21:02 test0l: [ 6426.765054] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] ABORT operation started
> Nov  3 16:21:02 test0l: [ 6426.765059] sd 0:0:0:0: ABORT operation failed.
> Nov  3 16:21:02 test0l: [ 6426.765065] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] DEVICE RESET
> operation started
>
> In the syslog from proxmox are no messages seen.
>
> What does it mean, how can i fix it?
>
> Thanks for help an proxmox!
>
> Kindly regards, Meike
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The 'sd' errors are related to disk .  so check the disk.
and  in case this has not been done,  backup your kvm's and openvz's and 
copy off of that system.

if the disk needs to be replaced, it is easy to reinstall when there are 
backups.