From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: Bootup with kernel version 427 fails to bringup the network interface but works consistently under version 358. Excerpts from /var/log/messages are below for both versions: Related messages in the log attempting to boot 427: Jun 13 22:50:18 localhost kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 Jun 13 22:50:18 localhost kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xc800, 00:0d:61:01:6a:6a, IRQ 11 Jun 13 22:50:18 localhost kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 Jun 13 22:50:18 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 13 22:50:18 localhost kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 Jun 13 22:50:18 localhost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Jun 13 22:50:18 localhost kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 Jun 13 22:50:18 localhost kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 Jun 13 22:50:18 localhost netfs: Mounting other filesystems: succeeded Jun 13 22:50:18 localhost autofs: automount startup succeeded (smartd entries removed) Jun 13 22:50:17 localhost ifup: failed. Under 358 the interface comes up: Jun 13 22:57:10 unixtop kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 Jun 13 22:57:10 unixtop kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xc800, 00:0d:61:01:6a:6a, IRQ 11 Jun 13 22:57:10 unixtop kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 (removed unrelated messages) Jun 13 22:57:09 unixtop ifup: done. Jun 13 22:57:09 unixtop network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.6-1.427 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reboot and select kernel version 427 Actual Results: Bringing up the network interface fails for eth0 Expected Results: Bring up the interface and acquire an IP by DHCP Additional info:
Continues to fail with kernel version 435
does it work if you boot with acpi=off ?
Continues to fail with or without acpi=off in kernels 435 and 427. It works in 358 which I boot without any acpi options (just defaults). Manually setting a static address and routing without using dhclient also fails to create a working network connection. 'ethtool' reports the same information when booted to a working kernel as when booted to a non-functioning kernel as does 'mii-tool'.
Going through messages repeatedly, I found some additional messages that are most likely meaningful. It registers the ehci_hcd to irq 11. Immediately after the "new USB bus registered assigned bus number 1". An irq 11: nobody cared! (screaming interrupt?) Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace handlers: [<02216a58>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x4b) Disabling IRQ #11 The irq 11 nobody cared and related messages only occurs when booting with 435 and 427. The nic is also assigned to IRQ 11 later in messages and fails as described previously. My appologies for not noting this or providing the full log initially.
is this still a problem in the latest errata kernels ?
I can confirm I no longer have this issue with kernel-2.6.9-1.667 on Fedora Core 3.