From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 18:01:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C195106564A for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:01:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 184FB8FC1D for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:01:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m34so142295ele.8 for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:01:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=dnqBVda18yCbpjqVIrEf4oh1K6xA8fvXbXxg66Ul5Pk=; b=iy48RSroSJzuqmHPUmY9G8ozFQl+fC4S5aSEhWdQJBT+wLraSF3VCgCbhymofzv/H0YEMEfxgH/3RiJMrGWTnotYSHF+Pnjxfse/uLY6EdQ7al6R3a6zVqUW3+RYQluop2U8/vrS1327QKhSfNnzK1lDv0GVsPtmgbhGNG5WW8o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YPWAe5v9E83NPRZ1KmLPWvbLqx2oKAA1kHPYD4JgLTAHly73Jr+60VlSK//f/CjDHRd/JPm6lkg73HY+32Q033riWAZhXIMD6ZckFX94THn2QPn5Z7o/JRYdssxIEgV2E2JZUCp62Cc2MbfBvYMj28LQ8hqrYnEFrLJkmryDZww= Received: by 10.114.171.1 with SMTP id t1mr1815999wae.124.1208453553493; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:32:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.174.20 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:32:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2a41acea0804171032y239913efq3163edb67fc468a0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:32:33 -0700 From: "Jack Vogel" To: "Ben Stuyts" In-Reply-To: <4DE42652-2CE8-4567-AD49-2F425917A232@altesco.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080417112035.GA81275@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <0528764C-4B25-4063-B018-EFD2750ACBDB@altesco.nl> <20080417141139.GA84832@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <4DE42652-2CE8-4567-AD49-2F425917A232@altesco.nl> Cc: jfv@freebsd.org, gnn@freebsd.org, Jeremy Chadwick , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with em0 failing to initialize on stable? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:01:29 -0000 On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Ben Stuyts wrote: > > > On 17 apr 2008, at 16:11, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 02:02:51PM +0200, Ben Stuyts wrote: > > > > > On 17 apr 2008, at 13:20, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 06:32:32PM +0900, gnn@freebsd.org wrote: > > > > > > > > > I am running 7-STABLE with machines that are net booted. On > occasion, > > > > > that is not with any level of predictability, this happens: > > > > > > > > > > em0: Hardware Initialization Failed > > > > > em0: Unable to initialize the hardware > > > > > > > > > > which of course stops the machine in its tracks. A normal dmesg is > > > > > also included. > > > > > > > > > > Any steps I should take to help debug this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > George, can you provide the following? > > > > > > > > * Motherboard type and model (a URL to the board would be good) > > > > * kenv | grep smbios > > > > * pciconf -lv > > > > > > > > > > I have seen this too. A couple of times on a new server here. Maybe one > in > > > two or three reboots. So far, it only happens after a reboot, but not > after > > > a hard reset or power cycle. This board has 3 em network if's. Two on > the > > > board itself, and one on a daughter card on the ipmi add-on card. It is > > > always em0 that is giving trouble. The board is a Supermicro X7DBP-i: > > > > > > > > > > > I'm wondering if the IPMI add-on is what's doing it. However, the IPMI > > cards compatible with the X7DBP all have a dedicated NIC (versus > > piggybacking on top of the existing mainboards' NICs, which almost > > always causes problems of the mysterious sort). I'm not sure, but I > > don't think em0 will be that NIC. > > > > Correct, em0 and em1 are on the mainboard. em2 is on the > daughter-daughtercard and also single use for the OS. And then there's a 4th > nic which is the ipmi interface. It is completely separate. (I have the > SIM1U-3B & SIM1U-3D daughter cards: > > > > > > Both you and George have boards that use the 82563EB. jv@ will have to > > help with this one. I wonder if it's a BIOS bug of some kind, where > > something on the NIC isn't getting reset by the BIOS on a soft boot... > > > > Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. I can test patches during > evening hours when this server is mostly idle. > > Ben > > There is a fix in the shared code that is checked into CURRENT that addresses this, however, yesterday evening a problem cropped up that might still be unfixed with that code, I'm looking into that today... Jack