Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 189852
Network devices interrupts getting lost
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:26:43 EST
Description of problem: I have a Toshiba Satellite A105-1013 laptop with a Realtek 8193 (8193too.ko) and a built-in Atheros AR5212 wifi (madwifi) and am having trouble with both of them. Randomly the network devices stop receiving data from the network. I can see the packets sent from the laptop, but it never seems to recieve any new packets. The interrupt count in /proc/interrupts never increases for the IRQ assigned to the network card. Nothing short of a reboot allows the card to work again. Adding irqpoll to the kernel command line prevents the lockups, but makes the entire system painfully slow and causes a large number of other problems. Other kernel options such as noapic, or apic=routeirq cause the system to panic as soon as the kernel starts to boot. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All FC5 released i686 uiniprocessor kernels How reproducible: Use the network (easy to force by transferring a large video file) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Bring up network interface (any) 2. Transfer data 3. Actual results: Network activity stops, counts in /proc/interrupt stop changing Expected results: Network activity continues Additional info: I've tried all the released FC5 kernels with the same results. The lockup can happen after just a few seconds, or after a few minutes. I can't go 15 minutes without reboot without irqpoll. Booting into single user and bringing up the network with no other drivers (USB/sound/cpuspeed/acpi) still has the same problem.
Created attachment 128181 [details] Output of lspci -v
Created attachment 128182 [details] Output of lsmod (running with irqpoll)
A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5 have reported that installing a kernel update has left their systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2 installed. See bug 207474 for further details. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem. Thank you.
This bug has been mass-closed along with all other bugs that have been in NEEDINFO state for several months. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, this is the only method we have of cleaning out stale bug reports where the reporter has disappeared. If you can reproduce this bug after installing all the current updates, please reopen this bug. If you are not the reporter, you can add a comment requesting it be reopened, and someone will get to it asap. Thank you.