From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 21 09:43:29 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9334D16A417 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:43:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remy.nonnenmacher@activnetworks.com) Received: from mallaury.nerim.net (mallaury.ipv6.nerim.net [IPv6:2001:7a8:1:5::82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1601F13C459 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:43:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from remy.nonnenmacher@activnetworks.com) Received: from rn.activnetworks.com (anwadmin.net8.nerim.net [213.41.185.85]) by mallaury.nerim.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 625474F3EC; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:43:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <46CAB40B.6030605@activnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:44:43 +0200 From: Remy Nonnenmacher User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070709 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lawrence Farr References: <46C9B99C.1060403@moneybookers.com> <012501c7e348$288c6af0$79a540d0$@co.uk> In-Reply-To: <012501c7e348$288c6af0$79a540d0$@co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solid hang with bge interface X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:43:29 -0000 Lawrence Farr wrote: > I have a Supermicro H8DAR-T based server, that was happily > running 6-stable from last year sometime. I swapped it out and > have been trying to get -CURRENT installed on it but it hangs > solid as soon as you configure the bge0 interface. The bge1 > interface will work occasionally tho. To try and rule out a > hardware fault I booted an AMD64-6.0RC1 cd that I had, which > had no problems at all with the interface: > > http://www.epcdirect.com/bootlog/6boot.txt > > But the current snapshot from June, and from todays source > hangs solid as soon as you try to set up the bge0 interface. > > http://www.epcdirect.com/bootlog/currentboot.txt > > As you can see, it hangs solid at "Setting hostname". > > I've also removed the 3ware card "just in case" but it made > no difference. Latest BIOS too. I found some references to > a similar problem with bge recently too: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-August/075998.html > > > Anyone else seeing this? > Same here with a Supermicro H8SSL-I2 (Serverworks HT1000 based). bge0 locks the system hard when going up, bge1 OK (but goes down a few hours after start). Also, an ifconfig indicates: bge0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9b ether 00:30:48:5e:6e:56 media: Ethernet autoselect (none ) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ status: no carrier bge1: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=9b ether 00:30:48:5e:6e:57 inet 192.168.1.49 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX ) status: active An the dmesg shows: (see "^^^^..") . . bge0: mem 0xff4f0000-0xff4fffff irq 24 at device 3.0 on pci2 miibus0: on bge0 brgphy0: PHY 1 on miibus0 brgphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto bge0: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:5e:6e:56 bge0: [ITHREAD] pci2:3:1: bad VPD cksum, remain 14 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ bge1: mem 0xff4e0000-0xff4effff irq 25 at device 3.1 on pci2 miibus1: on bge1 brgphy1: PHY 1 on miibus1 brgphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto bge1: Ethernet address: 00:30:48:5e:6e:57 bge1: [ITHREAD] . . (I also have strange problems with the SATA controller and recent kernels (that works fine on other machines) that seems to read random sectors (at least not those requested) causing core-dumps, compiler internal errors, trashed sources and false positives about corrupted filesystems.I don't know what is going on on this platform but it smells^Gdoesn't looks very sane.) RN. IeM