Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 532858
IBM HS22: SOL drops on bnx2 driver load
Last modified: 2018-10-20 00:16:32 EDT
Description of problem: We have our favorite problem with the bnx2 drivers again with this box whereby the loading of the module causes the SOL traffic to drop. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rhel4u8 1.7.9-2 bnx2 driver doesn't work (tested 2.6.9-89.0.9.EL) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try configuring the serial console on it and slapping on the latest RHEL4 public kernel on it and you'll watch the SOL session drop just after the bnx2 modules load... > rc.afs: /sbin/sysctl -w afs.hm_retry_int=60 >/dev/null 2>&1 > rc.afs: /sbin/sysctl -w afs.hm_retry_RW=1 >/dev/null 2>&1 > rc.afs: /sbin/sysctl -w afs.hm_retry_RO=1 >/dev/null 2>&1 > rc.afs: /sbin/sysctl -w afs.GCPAGs=1 >/dev/null 2>&1 > rc.afs: /sbin/sysctl -w afs.md5inum=1 > /dev/null 2>& 1 || true > rc.afs: touch /var/lock/subsys/afs > rc.afs: Booting into q.ny.ms.com, as per /etc/vice/etc/Th > SOL session is temporarily not available. > Attempting to re-establish your session ... Actual results: SOL doesn't work on EL4.8 Expected results: SOL works fine on EL4.8 Additional info: And stays like that until you unload the driver during reboot and then it suddenly comes back to life. RHEL5 seems fine. ---------------------------------------------
The firmware update from this git fixed this issue. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=259436a505bedc59a0114f2d17fa56af71d94129
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Committed in 89.36.EL . RPMS are available at http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0263.html