ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uname -r 4.15.0-56-generic ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/version Linux version 4.15.0-56-generic (arighi@kathleen) (gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1)) #62~lp1796292 SMP Thu Aug 1 07:45:21 UTC 2019 This failed on the second install while running bcache-super-show /dev/vdg Hung task. [ 259.150347] bcache: run_cache_set() invalidating existing data [ 259.158038] bcache: register_cache() registered cache device nvme1n1p2 [ 259.251093] bcache: register_bdev() registered backing device vdg [ 259.379809] bcache: bch_cached_dev_attach() Caching vdg as bcache3 on set 084505ad-5f6c-4666-9e3e-4f1650e8b015 [ 259.411486] bcache: register_bcache() error /dev/vdg: device already registered (emitting change event) [ 259.537070] bcache: register_bcache() error /dev/vdg: device already registered (emitting change event) [ 259.797830] bcache: register_bcache() error /dev/vdg: device already registered (emitting change event) [ 259.900392] bcache: register_bcache() error /dev/vdg: device already registered (emitting change event) [ 271.682662] md: md0: resync done. [ 484.525529] INFO: task python3:11257 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [ 484.528933] Tainted: P O 4.15.0-56-generic #62~lp1796292 [ 484.532221] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 484.535936] python3 D 0 11257 7974 0x00000000 [ 484.535941] Call Trace: [ 484.535952] __schedule+0x291/0x8a0 [ 484.535957] schedule+0x2c/0x80 [ 484.535977] bch_bucket_alloc+0x1fa/0x350 [bcache] [ 484.535984] ? wait_woken+0x80/0x80 [ 484.535993] __bch_bucket_alloc_set+0xfe/0x150 [bcache] [ 484.536002] bch_bucket_alloc_set+0x4e/0x70 [bcache] [ 484.536014] __uuid_write+0x59/0x150 [bcache] [ 484.536025] ? __write_super+0x137/0x170 [bcache] [ 484.536035] bch_uuid_write+0x16/0x40 [bcache] [ 484.536046] __cached_dev_store+0x1d8/0x8a0 [bcache] [ 484.536057] bch_cached_dev_store+0x39/0xc0 [bcache] [ 484.536061] sysfs_kf_write+0x3c/0x50 [ 484.536064] kernfs_fop_write+0x125/0x1a0 [ 484.536069] __vfs_write+0x1b/0x40 [ 484.536071] vfs_write+0xb1/0x1a0 [ 484.536075] SyS_write+0x5c/0xe0 [ 484.536081] do_syscall_64+0x73/0x130 [ 484.536085] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2 [ 484.536088] RIP: 0033:0x7f2ac7aa7154 [ 484.536090] RSP: 002b:00007ffff157b628 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001 [ 484.536093] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000008 RCX: 00007f2ac7aa7154 [ 484.536095] RDX: 0000000000000008 RSI: 0000000001c96340 RDI: 0000000000000003 [ 484.536096] RBP: 00007f2ac7fa26c0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 484.536098] R10: 0000000000000100 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000003 [ 484.536099] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000001c96340 R15: 00000000019c7db0 I'll note that, I can run bcache-super-show on the device while this was hung. $ sudo bash root@ubuntu:~# bcache-super-show /dev/vdg sb.magic ok sb.first_sector 8 [match] sb.csum C71A896B52F1C486 [match] sb.version 1 [backing device] dev.label osddata5 dev.uuid 11df8370-fb64-4bb0-8171-dadabb47f6b1 dev.sectors_per_block 1 dev.sectors_per_bucket 1024 dev.data.first_sector 16 dev.data.cache_mode 1 [writeback] dev.data.cache_state 1 [clean] cset.uuid 084505ad-5f6c-4666-9e3e-4f1650e8b015