Dear Intel folks,
Changing our login setup, we noticed sometimes the RPC time-out `do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out` when calling `getspnam()` on exactly one type of machines, Dell OptiPlex 990, with the ethernet device 82579LM.
Please find DMI info fetched with `dmicode -s …`, where the string is in the order below, and the values separated by a hash.
bios-vendor bios-version system-manufacturer system-product-name system-version baseboard-product-name baseboard-version
Dell Inc.#A11#Dell Inc.#OptiPlex 990#01#06D7TR#A01
Dell Inc.#A11#Dell Inc.#OptiPlex 990#01#06D7TR#A01
Dell Inc.#A10#Dell Inc.#OptiPlex 990#01#06D7TR#A01
Dell Inc.#A07#Dell Inc.#OptiPlex 990#01#06D7TR#A00
Dell Inc.#A07#Dell Inc.#OptiPlex 990#01#06D7TR#A00
Dell Inc.#A07#Dell Inc.#OptiPlex 990#01#06D7TR#A00
Dell Inc.#A07#Dell Inc.#OptiPlex 990#01#06D7TR#A00
Dell Inc.#A07#Dell Inc.#OptiPlex 990#01#06D7TR#A00
Dell Inc.#A07#Dell Inc.#OptiPlex 990#01#06D7TR#A00
Dell Inc.#A05#Dell Inc.#OptiPlex 990#01#06D7TR#A00
Dell Inc.#A05#Dell Inc.#OptiPlex 990#01#06D7TR#A00
Dell Inc.#A03#Dell Inc.#OptiPlex 990#01#06D7TR#A00
The machines are of course out of warranty, and we guess that the
problem was there all along (reproducible with Linux 4.4 and 4.9), but
wasn’t noticed until now. We suspect it’s a hardware problem, as the PBA
number of these devices is all *E041FF-0FF*. Other systems also use the
device, but the problem is not reproducible there, for example *1011FF-0FF*.
Anyway, before digging more into this, could you please take a look into your internal error documents if there is a problem with that special 82579LM assembly?
``` [ 1.458794] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 3.2.6-k [ 1.459053] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2015 Intel Corporation.[ 1.459414] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: Interrupt Throttling Rate (ints/sec) set to dynamic conservative mode
[ 1.722400] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: registered PHC clock[ 1.722653] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: (PCI Express:2.5GT/s:Width x1) 90:b1:1c:79:7b:04 [ 1.723072] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection [ 1.723403] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 eth0: MAC: 10, PHY: 11, PBA No: 1011FF-0FF
[ 13.693188] e1000e 0000:00:19.0 net00: renamed from eth0[ 16.878762] e1000e: net00 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: Rx/Tx
``` Kind regards, Paul
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