[LU-7565] (llite_lib.c:2309:ll_prep_inode()) new_inode -fatal: rc -2

• Status: Resolved
• Project: Lustre
• Type: Bug
• Priority: Critical
• Reporter: Frank Heckes (Inactive)
• Assignee: WC Triage
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Labels: soak

Environment

lola
build: tip of master (commit ae3a2891f10a19acf855a90337316dda704da5d)

• Severity: 3

Description

The error happens during soak testing of build '20151214' (see https://wiki.hpdd.intel.com/display/Releases/Soak+Testing+on+Lola#SoakTestingonLola-20151214)

During normal soak operations (no fault injected) approximately 5% of the test (batch) jobs crash.
The events can be correlated to the error message

Dec 16 02:40:45 lola-31 kernel: LustreError: 110820:0:(llite_lib.c:2309:ll_prep_inode()) new_inode -fatal: rc -2
Dec 16 02:40:45 lola-31 kernel: LustreError: 110820:0:(llite_lib.c:2309:ll_prep_inode()) Skipped 1 previous similar message

on a Lustre client node executing the batch job.
No other message on OSS or MDS nodes can be correleated.

Comments

[Cliff White (Inactive)]

Issue did not reproduce- closing

[Alex Zhuravlev]

I'm hitting this locally (very rare).. it seems the root cause is that failed mkdir can't cleanup the name sometimes, then subsequent lookup/stat/whatever finds that in broken state (the name and one stripe exist, but another stripe doesn't).

[Alex Zhuravlev]

can be reproduced with ZFS and ldiskfs