# oracleasm causes kernel panic

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**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [July 25, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/oracleasm-causes-kernel-panic/22885 "2012-07-25T15:52:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![jdrews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@jdrews](https://forums.suse.com/u/jdrews)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/oracleasm-causes-kernel-panic/22885/1 "2012-07-25T15:52:29Z")

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Clean install of oracleasm on SLES 11.2 (64bit) (patched or unpatched). Configured ASM. When you do a /etc/init.d/oracleasm stop, the kernel will panic in 5 seconds after doing the command. This is very repeatable. This is on a Dell R720 server, 64 Gig of ram, all local storage. I’ve tried going back to SLES 10.4, and don’t have this problem (but shelf life of 10.4 is getting near the end, so don’t want to use 10.4).

Help! I tried opening a case with Oracle, and as expected, said contact Novell.

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**Author:** ![enovaklbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/aca169/32.png) [@enovaklbank](https://forums.suse.com/u/enovaklbank)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 2:11pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/oracleasm-causes-kernel-panic/22885/2 "2012-07-26T14:11:40Z")

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> said contact Novell.  
> And did you contact them? 🙂

What do the logs say? dmesg, messages/warn, etc.?

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**Author:** ![jdrews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@jdrews](https://forums.suse.com/u/jdrews)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/oracleasm-causes-kernel-panic/22885/3 "2012-07-27T16:36:02Z")

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[QUOTE=enovaklbank;5820]\> said contact Novell.  
And did you contact them? 🙂

What do the logs say? dmesg, messages/warn, etc.?[/QUOTE]

I don’t have a few hundred $ to open a case, and the Novell support site won’t let me open a case without an incident (despite having paid for SLES).

I do have a kernel dump file (1 gig).

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**Author:** ![KEVIN1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a9adbd/32.png) [@KEVIN1](https://forums.suse.com/u/KEVIN1)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/oracleasm-causes-kernel-panic/22885/4 "2012-07-31T00:16:24Z")

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jdrews wrote:  
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> I don’t have a few hundred $ to open a case, and the Novell support  
> site won’t let me open a case without an incident (despite having paid  
> for SLES).[/color]

Have you checked with the Novell Customer Center?  
[https://secure-www.novell.com/center/regadmin/jsps/home\_app.jsp](https://secure-www.novell.com/center/regadmin/jsps/home_app.jsp)

If you “paid” for SLES, perhaps you have maintenance. Maintenance gives  
you access to patches and allows you to open Service Requests.

–  
Kevin Boyle - Knowledge Partner  
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