Thanks you very much, good advice here!
We will try this,
and may bug your personally (?) if we need clarification as it doesn't seem
to be a postgres issue.
Sam
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ericson Smith [mailto:eric@did-it.com]
> Sent: 19 July 2002 14:03
> To: Sam Liddicott
> Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Startup death!
>
>
> We got the i20 driver update from Adaptec's site, THEN
> updated RedHat's
> kernel using their up2date utility.
>
> Here's the steps:
>
> 1. Have your SCSI Raid driver disk ready
> 2. You need to reinstall RedHat in expert mode so it will
> *not load* the
> default redhat driver for your RAID (this was part of the problem).
> 3. Insert the SCSI Raid driver when it prompts you
> 4. Install Linux as necessary
> 5. As soon as your install is finished, run rhn_register, and
> up2date to
> download the latest kernels for your machine.
> 6. Install and run Postgres
>
> These are the steps that we used with success.
>
> - Ericson Smith
> eric@did-it.com
>
>
> On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 03:52, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ericson Smith [mailto:eric@did-it.com]
> > > Sent: 18 July 2002 15:34
> > > To: Tom Lane
> > > Cc: Postgresql General Mailing List
> > > Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Startup death!
> > >
> > >
> > > Seems I had this same problem a while back with 7.2.1
> > >
> > > We had I/O problems. Our RAID controller driver was acting
> > > up. Upgrading
> > > the i20 driver from Redhat finally and definitively solved
> > > the problem.
> >
> > We're using redhat 7.3 with raid...
> > When was this that you got the i20 driver update. Did you
> have to say any
> > magic words? Is it part of any release lately? What
> version do you use
> > now?
> > For us, lsmod doesn't show any kind of i20
> > We have /dev/hdi20 which is owned by the dev-3.3-4 package,
> but it has i21,
> > i22 etc
> > The descriptions of all the packages installed don't mention i20
> >
> > We have unused (no disks) Adaptec AIC7899 and then we actually use a
> > MegaRAID card.
> >
> > > I would love to hear what your solution was, but am
> almost sure it is
> > > related to a disk i/o issue.
> >
> > When it next happens we will strace -p and gdb the
> processes to see what
> > they are doing.
> >
> > > For others in the list... What does it mean when the Postgresql
> > > processes are in startup mode? What is it supposed to be
> doing in that
> > > mode?
> >
> > yeah!
> >
> > Sam
> >
> >
> >
>
>
