[oi-dev] upgrading to oi_151a blocking on hard drive.

[Alasdair Lumsden]

Hi Jonathan,

Sorry for asking the obvious, but is all fine if you boot back up in an older boot environment?

(I'd like to rule out coincidental hardware issues since harddrives are notoriously sucky)

Cheers,

Alasdair



On 25 Aug 2011, at 10:25, Jonathan Adams wrote:

> Last night I removed the BE's after kernel a4e1558c05 and tried to do an update.
> 
> after updating to the latest kernel I rebooted the machine and left
> for the evening to see if it would boot after a very long time.
> 
> This morning I was pleasantly surprised to find a log on screen, and
> was able to log on to the computer, but it appeared to be sluggish.
> 
> Knowing that it did boot I decided to boot the latest kernel with the
> verbose option ... and it all booted, slowly, but with no noticeable
> differences to a normal boot (with the exception of "network/location
> Method or service timed out" after about 5 minutes.
> 
> after booting it appeared to be sluggish again, so i ran an "iostat
> -zxc 5" and noticed that my hard disk was running with 100% blocking
> most of the time, with very low disk usage.
> 
> I started some applications (gedit, firefox, thunderbird ...) firefox
> and thunderbird were essentially unusable, gedit was just about able
> to open and save files.
> 
> I would really like to be able to upgrade and look at the kvm code,
> and am happy to give any information/logs that are needed.
> 
> Jon
> 
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