Spent quite a bit of time on this and finally some progress. This is not a critical bug anymore as I can now successfully reboot my lpar with the -proposed kernel 5.0.0-38 for SRU Cycle 2019.12.02
During deployment of an lpar we configure DASD aliases via multipath, usually this is required for disk performance however in our lab we are always connecting to just 1 disk, so there is no need to i/o performance in the test lab. Also it is in question if DASD Aliases should not be used on an lpar as they may only be for Zvm's, is this a proper supported configuration? It would appear that having an active subchannel "chzdev -e 0.0.17e0-0.0.XXXX" is what perhaps is leading to this reboot problem. The system actually is really "rebooting", it simply takes over 20 minutes to accomplish that task. Why so long? The assumption is that, once a channel is activated, the system will build udev rules and rebuild the initramfs. Thus during the reboot phase, the lpar must query each of the enabled disks to ensure they are ok. Oddly , we don't see a delay in a shutdown command either. This is just an assumption since I only see the problem once I activate host multipath via chzdev. This problem has never been seen or experienced in the past and is only isolated to this kernel. Xenial,Eoan -proposed both restart just fine (For this SRU cycle) It's possible that a commit made within this cycle has exposed this issue. However for now there is a valid workaround. In the lpar that Frank Heimes tested, he did NOT have multipathing configured as his system rebooted without any delays, just as I experienced after a fresh install (no multipathing configured) I'm going to leave the severity at Medium as Frank Heimes will obtaining more information about the disk multipathing on the lpar. To see if this possibly is the culprit. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Assignee: Sean Feole (sfeole) => (unassigned) ** Summary changed: - Unable to reboot Disco on Ubuntu LPAR s390x (5.0.0-38) + Extreme Delayed Reboot with Disco on Ubuntu LPAR s390x (5.0.0-38) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1855237 Title: Extreme Delayed Reboot with Disco on Ubuntu LPAR s390x (5.0.0-38) Status in Ubuntu on IBM z Systems: Triaged Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: With the proposed Disco kernel (5.0.0-38) I can't reboot the s390x LPAR node s2lp4 When I tried to reboot the system it will render the system into a "Not operating" status. I tried to watch the output from the Integrated ASCII console and the Operating system messages from IBM Hardware Management Console. But there is nothing interesting there From Operating System Messages, it ends at: [ OK ] Reached target Final Step. [ OK ] Started Reboot. [ OK ] Reached target Reboot. And never proceed from this point. And HMC shows "Not operating" From Integrated ASCII console it just shows the login prompt, never prints any other message. Reboot works fine with older kernel (5.0.0-37) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: linux-image-5.0.0-38-generic 5.0.0-38.41 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-38.41-generic 5.0.21 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-38-generic s390x NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair AlsaDevices: Error: command ['ls', '-l', '/dev/snd/'] failed with exit code 2: ls: cannot access '/dev/snd/': No such file or directory AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'aplay': 'aplay' ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.4 Architecture: s390x ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'arecord': 'arecord' CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found. Date: Thu Dec 5 06:46:12 2019 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=eae923f9-f5a4-41c0-b3e4-04786207dbaa IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iwconfig': 'iwconfig' Lsusb: Error: command ['lsusb'] failed with exit code 1: PciMultimedia: ProcFB: ProcKernelCmdLine: root=UUID=1a6af794-84a9-4034-a213-39506b9bb91c crashkernel=196M BOOT_IMAGE=0 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-5.0.0-38-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-5.0.0-38-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.178.6 RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'rfkill': 'rfkill' SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-z-systems/+bug/1855237/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp