Hi,
Model: RB2011UiAS-2HnD, Firmware 3.10, ROS 6.15
When stopping a running metarouter (openwrt with kernel 3.3.8, 24MB RAM, two virtual NICs) via its console (halt), openwrt shuts down but also the RB2011 reboots with "router was rebooted without proper shutdown by watchdog timer".
Anyone seen this before? Known bug?
tia Hermann
PS: Unable to sign up at http://bugs.mikrotik-routeros.com, because I don't see any captcha.. :/
Re: RB2011 crashes when metarouter shuts down
is not related to MikroTik, contact the site owner
Re: RB2011 crashes when metarouter shuts down
Oh, though that site was from Mikrotik.. good to know!
Is there an official bugtracking site from Mikrotik?
Is there an official bugtracking site from Mikrotik?
Re: RB2011 crashes when metarouter shuts down
No, you must contact support@mikrotik.com if you think you have stumbled on a bug.
Re: RB2011 crashes when metarouter shuts down
i left specific bug in quotesHi,
on MIPSBE
When stopping a running metarouter using Shut-down via internal console) router reboots with "router was rebooted without proper shutdown by watchdog timer".
as a workaround you can use /metarouter shut-down <mr>
That will shuwdown your guest safely.
Re: RB2011 crashes when metarouter shuts down
Seems to be dead Web for one year. No need to sign in...PS: Unable to sign up at http://bugs.mikrotik-routeros.com, because I don't see any captcha.. :/
Re: RB2011 crashes when metarouter shuts down
Yeah, thx, found it. So shutting down is impossible for now. Wonder what fs is used, / get's mounted as roots with rw enabled.This is known bug:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=85990
I compiled attitude-adjustment (with fixed openssl etc.) some weeks ago, but it seems a good idea to not save any userdata inside the mr till this bug is fixed.
Re: RB2011 crashes when metarouter shuts down
see my post above.
Re: RB2011 crashes when metarouter shuts down
Tried that, but shutting down with metarouter shut-down mr1 doesn't work (for me). The state gets changed to shutting down, but the halt signal is simply ignored by the mr OS (openwrt build with kernel 3.3.
. Even worse, a following reboot inside the metarouter crashes the rb2011 (reboots).
. Even worse, a following reboot inside the metarouter crashes the rb2011 (reboots).Re: RB2011 crashes when metarouter shuts down
compile guest with ACPI support, as ACPI message of shutdown is sent by '/metarouter shutdown' at least RouterOS supports this.
Re: RB2011 crashes when metarouter shuts down
Janis,
I ran into this bug while trying to chase down a different problem with MikroTik Support (ticket #2014110766000602).
ACPI appears to be x86-only. So what equivalent option do I pick during kernel build configuration for both MIPS and PowerPC to support host-initiated shutdown?
Thanks,
-- Nathan
I ran into this bug while trying to chase down a different problem with MikroTik Support (ticket #2014110766000602).
ACPI appears to be x86-only. So what equivalent option do I pick during kernel build configuration for both MIPS and PowerPC to support host-initiated shutdown?
Thanks,
-- Nathan
Re: RB2011 crashes when metarouter shuts down
Hey JanisK,as a workaround you can use /metarouter shut-down <mr>
That will shuwdown your guest safely.
Unfortunately, this is not accurate. I ran into this bug on a RB450G while I was trying to hunt down a different bug (random "kernel failure" reboots that I thought might be related to MetaROUTER but which turned out to be a CAPsMAN problem in 6.20, which is now apparently fixed [EDIT: I now have reason to doubt that this was a CAPsMAN bug as originally claimed, but was instead simply a different manifestation of another MetaROUTER instability bug that keeps morphing and changing its symptoms between ROS versions and generally making a nuisance of itself; it might even be related to the bug being discussed in this thread]), and it does not matter if you ask RouterOS to tell the MetaROUTER to shut down with '/metarouter shut-down mr1', or if you tell the MetaROUTER itself to shut down. Either way can cause a crash. Crashes are random, and the bug doesn't always happen, so you were probably just lucky and all of your crashes during testing happened to you when you told the MetaROUTER to shut down in its own console, and not when you used the '/metarouter shut-down' command. But I have had the host RouterOS crash several times when shutting down with '/metarouter shut-down' in the same way, so that command is definitely not "safe" from the bug.
I got a RB2011UiAS-2HnD out to test further, and I can still reproduce this bug on 6.22. So this bug still has not been fixed. It is not limited to the RB2011, because as I said, it happens every once in a while on an RB450G that I have MetaROUTERs on. It doesn't happen as often or as easily on a 450G, though, so using an RB2011 to test for it and reproduce it is best (it happens quite often on the 2011!).
This is a very annoying bug because like the original posters both to this thread and the other one, I have discovered that if the RouterBoard gets rebooted when MetaROUTERs are still running, it can lead to filesystem corruption. So I need to shut the MetaROUTERs down if I ever need to pull the power on a RouterBoard, but shutting them down now risks a crash and reboot which can STILL cause corruption. Mostly this corruption only seems to impact the MetaROUTER, but occasionally I have even seen it corrupt some of the host's files. Shutting a MetaROUTER down cleanly is not super-important in-and-of-itself because MetaFS just stores the files from the MetaROUTER directly on the host filesystem, but there seems to be some kind of problem with YAFFS if a MetaFS is mounted and a clean shutdown is not performed that can lead to data corruption (probably another bug, and has been happening since at least RouterOS 5.x).
So this MR shutdown crashing really needs to get fixed. Please bring this bug back to the attention of the developers. It is very easy to test for and observe on an RB2011.
Oh, and by the way, it can also crash not just on MetaROUTER shutdown, but also on MetaROUTER reboot (either within the MetaROUTER console, or via '/metarouter reboot'). And I have even had it crash when just disabling the MetaROUTER ('/metarouter disable') without shutting it down! Bad, bad, bad...
(By the way, as far as the data corruption goes, so far I have never had a RouterBoard model that uses UBIFS instead of YAFFS have some data become corrupt if it loses power with MetaROUTERs still running. If RouterBOOT on all models supports UBIFS, you should give users the option of choosing UBIFS during Netinstall. It would be great to get a more stable filesystem on boards that use YAFFS now.)
Unfortunately, this also turns out not to be accurate. "ACPI" is an x86-specific power management technology, and so no ACPI options will show up during kernel build if you are building for non-x86 architectures like MIPS.compile guest with ACPI support, as ACPI message of shutdown is sent by '/metarouter shutdown' at least RouterOS supports this.
There is a "power management" submenu in the build options, but because "ACPI" does not apply to MIPS architectures, I had no idea what options I was supposed to pick in order to make an OpenWRT kernel that could accept shutdown and reboot commands from the RouterOS host. (I also don't feel I got good support from MikroTik about the MR shutdown crash bug or about this specific question during my interactions with MT support in ticket 2014110766000602. I asked for information about how to make this work, and he didn't consult the developers, but just told me that MT has no control over OpenWRT images that other people make. Well, no duh. That wasn't my question. The person I exchanged e-mails with also seemed to think my 450G board must have a failing NAND that was to blame for my issues and didn't realize that these crashes were being caused by a bug that you guys already know about. Don't MT support people have access to an internal bug database that they can search so that we don't waste gobs of time going round and round about a bug that is already known to you?)
I eventually figured this out for myself, so I will post the solution for other people's benefit. It turns out that MetaROUTER has some kind of message passing capability between host and guest that has nothing to do with ACPI. The MT kernel patches that add MetaROUTER guest support already listen for "restart" or "halt" messages, and then take action by signaling the init process. The reason why most OpenWRT MR images do not actually shut down or reboot when they are passed that message is because the RouterOS init process apparently expects different signals for "restart" (SIGINT) and "halt" (SIGWINCH) than the OpenWRT init (busybox) does, which wants to hear SIGTERM for reboot and SIGUSR1 for halt. So all you have to do to enable this functionality is to make a slight change to the MikroTik kernel patches. Here is a patch made against the official OpenWRT MetaROUTER 1.2 patch for kernel 2.6.31.10, which most people should be able to easily adapt to whatever kernel and patches they are already using:
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diff -p -r -d -u -N linux-2.6.31.10/arch/mips/metarouter/setup.c linux-2.6.31.10.new/arch/mips/metarouter/setup.c
--- linux-2.6.31.10/arch/mips/metarouter/setup.c
+++ linux-2.6.31.10.new/arch/mips/metarouter/setup.c
@@ -77,12 +77,12 @@ static irqreturn_t ctrl_interrupt(int ir
printk("RESTART\n");
init = find_task_by_pid_ns(1, &init_pid_ns);
if (init)
- send_sig(SIGINT, init, 1);
+ send_sig(SIGTERM, init, 1);
} else if (strncmp(buf, "halt", len) == 0) {
printk("HALT\n");
init = find_task_by_pid_ns(1, &init_pid_ns);
if (init)
- send_sig(SIGWINCH, init, 1);
+ send_sig(SIGUSR1, init, 1);
}
return IRQ_HANDLED;Good luck,
-- Nathan
Re: RB2011 crashes when metarouter shuts down
woow.. nice work Nathan!!
Re: RB2011 crashes when metarouter shuts down
How about running metarouter in CRS109-8G-1S-2HnD-IN? can CRS109-8G-1S-2HnD-IN run metarouter as well? it has the same processor but different model.
Does anyone have been try?
thankyou for your replay. sorry for my bad English.
Does anyone have been try?
thankyou for your replay. sorry for my bad English.
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