Bug 711302 - 10Gb NIC OneConnect(NC550SFP) can not get IP by DHCP in RHEL5.7b1 NFS installing sometimes
Summary: 10Gb NIC OneConnect(NC550SFP) can not get IP by DHCP in RHEL5.7b1 NFS install...
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.7
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Red Hat Kernel Manager
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-07 06:45 UTC by Dawei Pang
Modified: 2011-10-17 05:53 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-10-17 05:53:57 UTC
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anaconda log (558.08 KB, text/plain)
2011-06-07 06:46 UTC, Dawei Pang 		no flags Details
anaconda.syslog (143.67 KB, text/plain)
2011-06-07 06:46 UTC, Dawei Pang 		no flags Details
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Description Dawei Pang 2011-06-07 06:45:23 UTC 
Description of problem:
PXE boot from NC550SFP, load vmlinuz and initrd for RHEL5.7b1.
choose one port of NC550SFP as the NFS method installing, get the IP by DHCP.
get the IP failed.
There is some information in the anaconda.log as followed:
11:13:14 INFO    : going to pick interface
11:13:22 INFO    : going to do getNetConfig
11:13:22 INFO    : eth17 is not a wireless adapter
11:13:25 DEBUG   : waiting for link eth17...
11:13:25 DEBUG   :    0 seconds.
11:13:25 DEBUG   : sleep (nicdelay) for 0 secs first
11:13:25 DEBUG   : continuing...
11:13:26 INFO    : requesting dhcp timeout 45
11:13:26 INFO    : dhcp: ioctl SIOCGIFFLAGS failed: 19 No such device
This issue can be reproduced sometimes.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
OS: RHEL5.7b1
System: DL980G7
Firmware: NC550SFP 2.104.281.0
Cards: 
  SubIO board	Slot 1	x4		NC364T	
  SubIO board	Slot 2	x8		
  SubIO board	Slot 3	x8		AP769A
  SubIO board	Slot 4	x4		AP768A	
  SubIO board	Slot 5	x8			
  SubIO board	Slot 6	x8		NC365T	
  MainIO board	Slot 7	x4		
  MainIO board	Slot 8	x4		
  MainIO board	Slot 9	x8	        AP770A 
  MainIO board	Slot 10	x4			
  MainIO board	Slot 11	x8	        NC550SFP	
  SFFIO board	Slot 12	x8		SC08e
  SFFIO board	Slot 13	x8		NC375T	
  SFFIO board	Slot 14	x4		AP767A
  SFFIO board	Slot 15	x8			
  SFFIO board	Slot 16	x8			
  

Expected results:
NC550SFP can get IP by DHCP every time.
Not "No such device" message is reported.
Comment 1 Dawei Pang 2011-06-07 06:46:14 UTC 
Created attachment 503384 [details]
anaconda log
Comment 2 Dawei Pang 2011-06-07 06:46:41 UTC 
Created attachment 503385 [details]
anaconda.syslog
Comment 3 Radek Vykydal 2011-06-07 08:43:57 UTC 
From anaconda.syslog:

<7>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:11:00.0 to 64
<4>be2net 0000:11:00.0: Error in cmd completion - opcode 103, compl 2, extd 30
<6>be2net 0000:11:00.0: Emulex OneConnect 10Gbps NIC port 0
<6>GSI 31 sharing vector 0x9D and IRQ 31
<6>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:11:00.1[B] -> GSI 25 (level, low) -> IRQ 157
<7>PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:11:00.1 to 64
<4>be2net 0000:11:00.1: Error in cmd completion - opcode 103, compl 2, extd 30
<6>be2net 0000:11:00.1: Emulex OneConnect 10Gbps NIC port 1

A kernel bug?
Comment 4 Dawei Pang 2011-06-07 08:53:56 UTC 
In my attached logs, eth16 and eth17 is the 2 interfaces for NC550SFP.
I use other NIC to continue to install system and collect log, eth16 and eth17 disappeared in the followed installation progress.
Comment 5 Dawei Pang 2011-10-17 05:53:57 UTC 
This issue can not be reproduced in the RHEL5.7GA.
so close this issue
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